A comprehensive, up-to-date and lucidly written book meeting with the long-felt need for a complete text for undergraduate and postgraduate courses. The book is mainly concerned with detailed analysis and design of converters, inverters and power control circuits using solid-state devices. It covers the various types of transformation of energy and discusses the circuits and equipment basic to most electronic devices in use today. With its wide coverage and detailed analysis, is an ideal text for undergraduate and postgraduate and students of electrical engineering and electronics. It would also be highly useful to practicing engineers in the field of power control.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Characteristics Of Semiconductor Devices
Chapter 2 Cooling And Protection Of Power Semiconductor Devices
Chapter 3 Single-Phase Rectifiers
Chapter 4 Three-Phase Rectifier And Filters
Chapter 5 Single-Phase-Controlled Rectifier
Chapter 6 Three-Phase Controlled Rectifier
Chapter 7 Triggering Circuits For Phase-Controlled Rectifier
Chapter 8 AC and DC Voltage Regulator
Chapter 9 Inverter, Chopper And Cycloconverter
Chapter 10 DC and AC Motor Control