Power electronics course provides essential knowledge for applications in modern power systems. Course contents include: switch-mode power conversion; steady state in switching converters; ideal switches; power device characteristics including wide bandgap devices; DC-DC converters; buck; boost; buck-boost; Cuk and SEPIC converters; full bridge and dual-active bridge and other soft switching topologies; different current modes of operation; power management; PWM schemes; and applications in EV chargers; motor drives; solar/wind harvesting technologies.
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