Abstract:This chapter briefly examines fundamentals of power electronics and power electronics control technologies for power-supplying and power-consuming industries. Most of the voltage and current quantitie...This chapter briefly examines fundamentals of power electronics and power electronics control technologies for power-supplying and power-consuming industries. Most of the voltage and current quantities we have to handle in power electronics application engineering are cyclical repetitive quantities with distorted waveforms. A semiconductor is a power electronics device that is neither an insulator nor a conductor, so its properties are quite different from ordinary devices such as resistors and capacitors. There are two kinds of electronic components: positive devices and passive devices. Diodes and other ordinal devices are examples of passive devices. In contrast, transistors or thyristors are positive devices that have low-power input and converts this to a high-power output. Gate Turn-Offs are on-off controllable devices, which can be turned on by a positive gate signal and turned off by a negative gate signal. Bipolar junction transistors are also controllable devices and are equipped with three terminals collector, emitter, and bias.Read More
Publication Year: 2019
Publication Date: 2019-12-06
Language: en
Type: other
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