1. INTRODUCTION TO POWER ELECTRONICS Philip T. Krein Section 1: Power Electronics Devices 2. Semiconductor Diodes and Transistors Tiago Davi Curi Busarello, M. Godoy Simões and Jose Antenor Pomilio 3. Silicon Controlled Rectifies (Thyristors) Tanya Gachovska 4. Static Induction Devices Bogdan M. Wilamowski 5. Wide Band-Gap Materials and Power Semiconductor Devices Tanya Gachovska and Jerry Hudgins 6. Power Electronic Modules Enrico Santi, Soheila Eskandari, Bo Tian and Kang Peng Section 2: Power Conversion 7. Diode Rectifiers Martin Hoi Lam Chow 8. Single-phase Controlled Rectifiers Kishore Naik Mude 9. Three-phase Controlled Rectifiers Muhammad Rashid 10. DC-DC Converters Dariusz Czarkowski 11. Inverters Nimrod Vazquez and Joaquin Vaquero 12. Resonant and Soft-switching Converters Henry Chung and Ron Hui 13. Multilevel Power Converters Leon M. Tolbert and Xiaojie Shi 14. AC-AC Converters Atif Iqbal, M. Rizwan Khan and Mohammad Ali 15. Multi-Phase Converters Atif Iqbal, Mohammad Ali, Kishore Naik Mude, Shaikh Moinuddin, Salman Ahmad and Adil Sarwar 16. Power Factor Correction Circuits Kouzou Abdellah Sr. 17. Magnetic Circuit Design for Power Electronics William Gerard Hurley, Maeve Duffy, Jesus Acero, Ziwei Ouyang and Jun Zhang Section 3: General Applications 18. Solid State Pulsed Power and Capacitor Charging Applications J. Fernando A. Silva 19. Uninterruptible Power Supplies Adel Nasiri and Seyed Ahmad Hamidi 20. Power Supplies Y. M. Lai 21. Electronic Ballasts J. Marcos Alonso 22. Wireless Power Transfer Mohammad Etemadrezaei Section 4: Power Generation and Distribution 23. Energy Sources Omer C. Onar 24. Photovoltaic System Conversion Nimrod Vazquez and Jeziel Vázquez Nava 25. Power Electronics for Renewable Energy Sources Syed Islam, Ahmed Abu Siada, Md Mubashwar Hasan and Chem Nayar 26. Electric Power Transmission Zahrul Faizi bin Hussien 27. HVDC Transmission Vijay Kumar Sood 28. Flexible AC Transmission Systems Edson H. Watanabe Sr. Section 5: Motor Drives 29. Drives Types and Specifications Yahya Shakweh 30. Motor Drives Rahman M F 31. Power Electronics for Electric Propulsion Shailendra Jain and Lalit Kumar 32. Automotive Applications of Power Electronics Khurram Khan Afridi 33. Fuel Cell Systems for Transportation Mohammad S. Alam and Mehmet Uzunoglu 34. Electric Vehicle Charging - Inductive and capacitive Battery Charging Chun T. Rim Section 6: Control 35. Linear and Nonlinear Control of Switching Power Converters J. Fernando A. Silva and Sonia Ferreira Pinto 36. Fuzzy Logic Applications in Electrical Drives and Power Electronics Abdul R. Ofoli 37. Artificial Neural Network Applications in Power Electronics and Electrical Drives Rahman M F 38. Novel AI-Based Soft Computing Applications in Motor Drives Adel M. -Sharaf and Adel Elgammal 39. DSP-based Control of Variable Speed Drives Hamid A. Toliyat 40. Predictive Control of Power Converters Haitham Abu-Rub and Sertac BAYHAN Section 7: Power Quality and EMI Issues 41. Active Filters Luis Morán and Miguel Torres 42. EMI Effects of Power Converters Andrzej M. Trzynadlowski 43. Power Electronics Standards Yuri Khersonsky Section 8: Simulation and Packaging 44. Computer Simulation of Power Electronics and Motor Drives Michael Giesselmann 45. Design for Reliability of Power Electronic Systems Frede Blaabjerg 46. Thermal Modeling and Analysis of Power Electronic Component and Systems Peter Wilson sakriti opis