Switching Power Converters: Medium and High Power (Power Electronics and Applications Series)

The Third Edition of Switching Power Converters goes beyond the design and analysis of conventional power converter circuits to discuss the actual use of industrial technology, covering facets of implementation otherwise overlooked by theoretical textbooks. This edition uniquely presents the historical and market evolution of each technology, allowing the reader to follow trends. Power electronics represents a mature technology, with a variety of products concurrent on the market, designed and launched from the 1990s to 2020s. The theoretical aspects presented in the book are supported with many examples, diligently exemplifying this market complexity.

It highlights advancements in new semiconductor devices and packaging technologies, design for reliability, or computer utilization in the design, development, and validation of new technical solutions. It also examines all of the multidisciplinary aspects of medium- and high-power converter systems, including basic power electronics, digital control and hardware, sensors, analog preprocessing of signals, protection devices and fault management, and pulse width modulation (PWM) algorithms.

Similar to the previous two editions, the Third Edition of Switching Power Converters remains the go-to-book for understanding all aspects related to the PWM used in the control of power converters. This book is one of the most comprehensive presentations of PWM algorithms, with illustrations of practical results for optimization or implementation on each analog, software, digital hardware, or Gbit flash memory platform.

The Author has a broad experience in application of advanced power electronics concepts in industry coming from a 35-years career alternating academic and industrial R&D positions.

Dorin O. Neacsu received the MSc and PhD degrees in Electronics from the Technical University of Iasi, Romania, in 1988 and 1994, respectively. In 2005, Dorin was graduated from a MSc program in Engineering Management at Gordon Institute, Tufts University, USA.

Since 1990 to 1999, Dorin has been with the faculty of the Department of Electronics, Technical University of Iasi, Romania. During this time, he held visiting positions at Universite du Quebec a Trois Rivieres, Canada, and General Motors/Delphi, Indianapolis, USA. Following 1999, Dr.Neacsu has been involved with the US industry (International Rectifier, SatCon Technology, and Azure Dynamics/Solectria) and with US academic activities (University of New Orleans, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and United Technologies Research Center). Dr. Neacsu is currently an Associate Professor with Technical University of Iasi, Romania.

Neacsu has published several ISBN monographs and academic textbooks in USA, Canada, and Romania. He has published over 110 papers or research notes, mostly within IEEE, organized 13 tutorials at IEEE conferences, and was awarded 4 US patents. Neacsu is a Senior Member of IEEE since 2000, and has an impressive volunteering track within IEEE. He currently serves as Associate Editor of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine and IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, Leader of IEEE PELS TC7 Committee for Critical Power, organizing or technical chair for several IEEE conferences.

His research areas are in static power converters, PWM algorithms, microprocessor control, modeling and simulation of power converters, theories of innovation.