Description
This text book provides a lucid and comprehensive treatment of the subject, Power Electronics. Characteristics of power diodes, power transistors and thyristors and also other related topics, giving an up-to- date account, have been discussed first. Then each chapter begins at an introductory level and is so developed progressively that an average student can comprehend the subject matter easily. The topics covered in this volume include diode circuits and rectifiers, phase-controlled rectifiers, inverters, ac voltage controllers, etc.
A large number of illustrative figures and a wide variety of worked examples add to the clarity of presentation. A sufficient number of unsolved problems with answers, conceptual questions and hints to the relatively difficult ones are given at the end of each chapter. This book will serve the students as a textbook during their academic career and as a reference text during their professional career.
