Power Electronics I, 5 cr

Core content

• The operation principle of power semiconductor devices (e.g., diode, thyristor, MOSFET, IGBT).
• The operation of diode-based single- and three-phase rectifiers.
• The operation of thyristor-based single- and three-phase rectifiers.
• The non-isolated switched-mode power converter: buck and boost converter.
• Two-level single-phase half-bridge and full-bridge converters.
• Two-level three-phase converters.
  
• Carrier-based pulse width modulation (CB-PWM).
• Power dissipation and cooling.

Complementary knowledge

• The effect of power converters to the power quality (harmonic analysis).
• Six-step modulation
• The operation principle of buck-boost converter.
• Sinusoidal PWM with 3rd harmonic injection.

Specialist knowledge

• Design of such converters
• The operation principle of GaN MOSFETs.
  
• The operation principle of SiC MOSFETs.
• Natural/stationary/synchronous reference frames
• Space vector modulation