Power Electronics Semiconductor Devices

Introduction

This book relates the recent developments in several key electrical engineering R&D labs, concentrating on power electronics switches and their use.

Power Electronics Technologies

The first sections deal with key power electronics technologies, MOSFETs and IGBTs, including series and parallel associations.

Silicon Carbide Applications

The next section examines silicon carbide and its potentiality for power electronics applications and its present limitations.

Capacitors and Modeling

Then, a dedicated section presents the capacitors, key passive components in power electronics, followed by a modeling method allowing the stray inductances computation, necessary for the precise simulation of switching waveforms.

Thermal Behavior and Prospects

Thermal behavior associated with power switches follows, and the last part proposes some interesting prospectives associated to Power Electronics integration.