1st Edition

Power Devices for Efficient Energy Conversion

By Gourab Majumdar, Ikunori Takata Copyright 2018
    346 Pages 203 Color & 41 B/W Illustrations
    by Jenny Stanford Publishing

    346 Pages 203 Color & 41 B/W Illustrations
    by Jenny Stanford Publishing

    The growth of power electronics, centering on inverters and converters as its key system topology, has accelerated recently due to the demand for efficient power conversion. This growth has also been backed up by several evolutionary changes and breakthroughs achieved in the areas of power semiconductor device physics, process technology, and design. However, as power semiconductor technology remains a highly specialized subject, the literature on further research, development, and design in related fields is not adequate. With this in view, two specialists of power semiconductors, well known for their research and contributions to the field, compiled this book as a review volume focusing on power chip and module technologies. The prime purpose is to help researchers, academia, and engineers, engaged in areas related to power devices and power electronics, better understand the evolutionary growth of major power device components, their operating principles, design aspects, application features, and trends.

    The book is filled with unique topics related to power semiconductors, including tips on state-of-the-art and futuristic-oriented applications. Numerous diagrams, illustrations, and graphics are included to adequately support the content and to make the book extremely attractive as a practical and user-friendly reference book for researchers, technologists, and engineers, as well as a textbook for advanced graduate-level and postgraduate students.

    Introduction

    Basic technologies of major power devices

    Applied power device family - Power Modules and Intelligent Power Modules

    Future prospects

    Biography

    Gourab Majumdar