Power and Control Electronics

Type of study	Doctoral
Language of instruction	English
Code	430-6004/02
Abbreviation	VaŘE
Course title	Power and Control Electronics
Credits	10
Coordinating department	Department of Applied Electronics
Course coordinator	prof. Ing. Petr Palacký, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Modern power semiconductor parts and their application - bipolar power transistors, IGBT, GTO thyristors.
The DC - switches. The DC - converters. Design of control DC - converters circuits.
The voltage - type converters, output current and voltage analyse.
The current - type converters, output voltage and current analyse, applications, control circuits.
Frequency converters with voltage / current - type DC link, cykloconverters.

Modern ways how to control the output voltage and current of frequency converters.
Realisation of control frequency converters circuits.

Literature

Heumann, K.: Basic Principles of Power Electronics. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York, ISBN 3-540-16138-4, 1986.
Rashid, M. H.: Power Electronics. Prentice-Hall International, Inc. ISBN 0-13-334483-5, 1993.
Horowitz, P. - Hill, W.: The Art of Electronics. Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-37095-7, 1989.

Advised literature

Technical texts at http://fei1.vsb.cz/kat430/texty/cs_cz/cz-o_kat.html

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