Power Electronics Tutorial

What is power electronics?

In electrical engineering, Power Electronics is an interdisciplinary subject which will be dealing with designing, controlling and conversion of power in its electric form. A system converting electric energy to an electric load using a control circuit can be called as a Power Electronic System.

This tutorial will give you detailed description about the major concepts in Power Electronics, which consists of Power Semi-Conductor Devices, Phase-Controlled Converters, DC to DC Converter, Inverters and AC to AC Converters.

Audience

This tutorial is useful for electrical engineering students and it will help them to gain knowledge on electronics and circuits as applied in power electronics.

Prerequisites

Before starting with this tutorial, user should have basic knowledge of electronics. As the tutorial includes some mathematical concepts, it is better that users should also have knowledge on mathematical equations.