Origin of Power Converters: Decoding, Synthesizing, and Modeling

This book identifies the original converter before moving on to develop and model power converters systematically based on decoding and synthesizing approaches. The first part of the book presents an introduction, discovery of the original converter, and some fundamentals related to power converter synthesis and evolution. It also provides an illustration of converter synthesis approaches, synthesis of multi-stage/multi-level converters, extension of hard-switching converters to soft-switching ones, and determination of switch-voltage stresses in the converters. In the second part of the book, the authors review conventional two-port network theory and state-space averaged (SSA) modeling approach, from which systematic modeling approaches based on the graft switch technique. The converter layer scheme and some fundamental circuit theories are also presented.

TSAI-FU WU, PHD, is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan. Dr. Wu has been an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics since 2000.

YU-KAI CHEN, PHD, is a Professor in the Innovative Design and Energy Application Laboratory at National Formosa University, Yunlin, Taiwan.