Wide Bandgap Power Electronics: Emerging Converter Technologies and Applications
暫譯: 寬帶隙功率電子學：新興轉換技術與應用

這本書介紹了基於寬帶隙半導體（如碳化矽（SiC）和氮化鎵（GaN））獨特電氣特性的下一代先進轉換器電路拓撲的變革性進展。它探討了寬帶隙功率器件的可用性所帶來的在功率電子電路性能上顯著進步的機會，以及在應用這些器件時必須克服的挑戰。作者針對涵蓋廣泛的功率電子電路和系統學科的應用領域，解決了特定的重大挑戰，包括電動馬達驅動系統、汽車應用、空中/鐵路/船舶推進、電動車充電器、高效能計算和數據中心、電源、太陽能逆變器、風電系統、高/中壓傳輸/配電設備以及與電網互動的功率電子、電網儲存的功率轉換、單片功率處理和固態斷路器。

《寬帶隙功率電子：新興轉換器技術與應用》向讀者介紹了寬帶隙功率半導體器件的獨特特性，以及它們在未來功率電子應用中對功率轉換器性能可能產生的革命性影響，將成為從事功率電子、應用和系統領域的工程師、研究人員和研究生的重要資源。

Isik C. Kizilyalli, Ph.D., currently serves as the Senior Director of Technology at the Sustainability Accelerator at the John Doerr School of Sustainability at Stanford University. Previously, he was the Associate Director for Technology at the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), U.S. Department of Energy. In this role, Dr. Kizilyalli supported and oversaw all technology issues relating to ARPA-E's programs, assisted with program development, recruited Program Directors and Fellows, and coordinated project management across the Agency. Dr. Kizilyalli's focus at ARPA-E included power electronics, wide bandgap semiconductors, electronic systems for hostile environments, electrification of transport (aviation, ships, automotive), subsurface instrumentation, novel drilling concepts, medium-voltage DC distribution grids, and grid resiliency against EMP and space weather threats. Before joining ARPA-E, he served as founder, Chief Executive Officer, and Chief Technical Officer of Avogy Inc., a venture-backed start-up focused on bulk GaN-based vertical power semiconductor technologies and power electronics. Formerly, he was with Bell Laboratories, followed by Nitronex Corporation and solar PV startup Alta Devices where his team holds the world record for single-junction solar cell conversion efficiency. Dr. Kizilyalli was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2007 for his contributions to" Integrated Circuit Technology." He received the Bell Laboratories' Distinguished Member of Technical Staff award and the Best Paper Award at the International Symposium on Power Semiconductors and Integrated Circuits in 2013. He holds his B.S. in Electrical Engineering, an M.S. in Metallurgy, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He has published more than 100 papers and holds 127 issued U.S. patents.

Z. John Shen, Ph.D., is currently a Professor and Director of the School of Mechatronic Systems Engineering at Simon Fraser University in Canada. He has over 30 years of industrial, academic, and entrepreneurial experience in power electronics and power semiconductor devices, with over 300 publications and 18 issued U.S. patents in these areas. He has been involved in circuit breaker research since 2013 and is an inventor of several patents and an author of over 30 publications on the subject. He was Grainger Chair Professor of Electrical and Power Engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, between 2013 and 2021. Dr. Shen has served the IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS) in various capacities, including Vice President of Products, AdCom member, Chair of the Distinguished Lecturers Program, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Power Electronics Magazine, Guest Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics and the IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics. He has been on the organizing or technical program committee of over 30 international conferences in the field and served as the General Chair of the 2016 Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE2016) and the 2018 International Symposium on Power Semiconductor Devices & IC's (ISPSD2018). Dr. Shen is a Fellow of the IEEE and the U.S. National Academy of Inventors. He received his B.S. from Tsinghua University in China and an M.S. and Ph.D. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, all in electrical engineering, respectively. He is a co-editor of the book Direct Current Fault Protection: Basic Concepts and Technology Advances (Springer, 2023).

Thomas Jahns, Ph.D., is the Grainger Emeritus Professor of Power Electronics and Electric Machines at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After earning his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from MIT in 1978, Prof. Jahns served in several engineering research positions for 13 years at GE Corporate Research and Development. From 1996 to 1998, he returned to MIT as a Senior Lecturer and Co-Director of the MIT Consortium on Advanced Automotive Electrical/Electronic Components and Systems. He joined UW-Madison in 1998 and served as a Co-Director of the Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium (WEMPEC) for 17 years. An expert in power electronics, electric machines, drives, and power conversion, Prof. Jahns has conducted research in a wide variety of areas ranging from the development of high-performance permanent magnet machines used in a large majority of the commercial hybrid- and battery-electric vehicles to the integration of distributed renewable energy sources and energy storage into the utility grid system using microgrids. In recent years, he has focused his research on integrated motor drives and electrified transportation, merging them in developing high-power-density MW-class motor drives for future aircraft electric propulsion systems. Prof. Jahns has been honored with numerous prestigious awards throughout his career in academia and industry. He became an IEEE Fellow in 1993 and received the IEEE Nikola Tesla Technical Field Award in 2005 "for pioneering contributions to the design and application of AC permanent magnet machines." Prof. Jahns served as the fourth President of the IEEE Power Electronics Society from 1995 to 1996 and an elected member of the IEEE Board of Directors from 2001 to 2002. He was elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in 2015 and received the IEEE Medal for Power Engineering in 2022.

Daniel Cunningham, Ph.D., is the Deputy Director for Technology at the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), U.S. Department of Energy, where he oversees their program portfolio and helps prepare innovative energy technologies for the transition to commercialization. Before ARPA-E, he worked at BP PLC in the Chief Scientist's Office, evaluating emerging energy technologies such as energy storage and alternative fuel pathways and assessing their impact on future business. Dr. Cunningham also worked at BP Solar Inc., serving in multiple capacities, including as the Director of Product Development, leading a multidisciplinary team to develop new technologies for BP Solar's product line. Here, he was responsible for bringing technologies to market, using innovative materials and manufacturing processes to enhance performance and reduce costs. He also took on the role of Director of Technology, where he led an R&D engineering team to develop and manufacture electrochemically deposited, thin-film CdTe devices for use in photovoltaic applications. He received a Research Partnership Award in 2001 from the U.S. Department of Energy (EERE) for work in this area. He has extensive experience in semiconductor crystal growth and processing, including PV module packaging and product reliability. Dr. Cunningham has authored over 70 publications, 12 patent publications, and is a co-editor of the book Direct Current Fault Protection: Basic Concepts and Technology Advances (Springer, 2023). He earned a Ph.D. in Chemistry specializing in electrochemistry and in-situ reflectance spectroscopy and a B.Sc. (Hons) in Chemistry at the University of Southampton, UK. He is also a Senior Member of the IEEE and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry with Chartered Chemist (CChem) status.

Isik C. Kizilyalli, Ph.D., 目前擔任史丹佛大學約翰·多爾可持續發展學院可持續發展加速器的技術高級總監。之前，他是美國能源部高級研究計畫署（ARPA-E）的技術副主任。在這個角色中，Kizilyalli 博士支持並監督與 ARPA-E 計畫相關的所有技術問題，協助計畫開發，招募計畫主任和研究員，並協調機構內的專案管理。Kizilyalli 博士在 ARPA-E 的重點包括電力電子學、寬帶隙半導體、惡劣環境下的電子系統、運輸電氣化（航空、船舶、汽車）、地下儀器、創新的鑽探概念、中壓直流配電網以及對抗電磁脈衝（EMP）和太空天氣威脅的電網韌性。在加入 ARPA-E 之前，他曾擔任 Avogy Inc. 的創始人、首席執行官和首席技術官，該公司是一家專注於大宗氮化鎵（GaN）基垂直功率半導體技術和電力電子的風險投資初創公司。他曾在貝爾實驗室工作，之後在 Nitronex Corporation 和太陽能光伏初創公司 Alta Devices 工作，該團隊持有單接面太陽能電池轉換效率的世界紀錄。Kizilyalli 博士於 2007 年被選為電氣和電子工程師學會（IEEE）會士，以表彰他對「集成電路技術」的貢獻。他於 2013 年獲得貝爾實驗室傑出技術成員獎和國際功率半導體與集成電路研討會最佳論文獎。他在伊利諾伊大學香檳分校獲得電氣工程學士學位、冶金碩士學位和電氣工程博士學位。他已發表超過 100 篇論文，並持有 127 項美國專利。

Z. John Shen, Ph.D., 目前是加拿大西門菲莎大學機電系的教授及系主任。他在電力電子學和功率半導體設備方面擁有超過 30 年的工業、學術和創業經驗，在這些領域發表了超過 300 篇論文並擁有 18 項美國專利。他自 2013 年以來參與斷路器研究，是幾項專利的發明人，並在該主題上發表了超過 30 篇論文。他曾於 2013 年至 2021 年擔任伊利諾伊理工學院電氣與電力工程的 Grainger 椅教授。Shen 博士在 IEEE 電力電子學會（PELS）擔任過多個職位，包括產品副總裁、AdCom 成員、傑出講者計畫主席、《IEEE Power Electronics Magazine》的副主編、《IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics》和《IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics》的特邀主編。他曾參與超過 30 個國際會議的組織或技術計畫委員會，並擔任 2016 年能源轉換大會及博覽會（ECCE2016）和 2018 年國際功率半導體設備與集成電路研討會（ISPSD2018）的總主席。Shen 博士是 IEEE 會士及美國國家發明家學院的會士。他在中國清華大學獲得學士學位，並在倫斯勒理工學院獲得碩士和博士學位，均為電氣工程。他是書籍《直流故障保護：基本概念與技術進展》（Springer, 2023）的共同編輯。

Thomas Jahns, Ph.D., 是威斯康辛大學麥迪遜分校的 Grainger 名譽教授，專注於電力電子學和電動機。Jahns 教授於 1978 年在麻省理工學院獲得電氣工程博士學位，隨後在 GE 企業研究與開發部門擔任了 13 年的工程研究職位。從 1996 年到 1998 年，他回到麻省理工學院擔任高級講師及麻省理工學院先進汽車電氣/電子元件與系統聯盟的共同主任。他於 1998 年加入威斯康辛大學麥迪遜分校，並擔任威斯康辛電動機與電力電子聯盟（WEMPEC）的共同主任達 17 年。作為電力電子學、電動機、驅動和電力轉換的專家，Jahns 教授在多個領域進行研究，從開發用於大多數商業混合動力和電池電動車的高性能永磁電機，到將分散式可再生能源和儲能整合進入公用事業電網系統，使用微電網。近年來，他將研究重點放在集成電動機驅動和電氣化交通上，並在開發未來飛機電推進系統的高功率密度 MW 級電動機驅動方面進行融合。Jahns 教授在學術界和工業界的職業生涯中獲得了多項著名獎項。他於 1993 年成為 IEEE 會士，並於 2005 年獲得 IEEE 尼古拉·特斯拉技術領域獎，以表彰他在交流永磁電機設計和應用方面的開創性貢獻。Jahns 教授於 1995 年至 1996 年擔任 IEEE 電力電子學會第四任會長，並於 2001 年至 2002 年擔任 IEEE 董事會的當選成員。他於 2015 年當選為美國國家工程院（NAE）成員，並於 2022 年獲得 IEEE 電力工程獎。

Daniel Cunningham, Ph.D., 是美國能源部高級研究計畫署（ARPA-E）的技術副主任，負責監督其計畫組合並協助準備創新能源技術以過渡到商業化。在加入 ARPA-E 之前，他在 BP PLC 的首席科學家辦公室工作，評估新興能源技術，如能源儲存和替代燃料路徑，並評估其對未來業務的影響。Cunningham 博士還曾在 BP Solar Inc. 擔任多個職位，包括產品開發總監，領導一個多學科團隊開發 BP Solar 產品線的新技術。在這裡，他負責將技術推向市場，利用創新材料和製造過程來提高性能並降低成本。他還擔任技術總監，領導一個研發工程團隊開發和製造用於光伏應用的電化學沉積薄膜 CdTe 裝置。他因在這方面的工作於 2001 年獲得美國能源部（EERE）的研究夥伴獎。他在半導體晶體生長和加工方面擁有豐富的經驗，包括光伏模組包裝和產品可靠性。Cunningham 博士已發表超過 70 篇論文，12 項專利出版物，並是書籍《直流故障保護：基本概念與技術進展》（Springer, 2023）的共同編輯。他在南安普敦大學獲得化學博士學位，專攻電化學和原位反射光譜學，並獲得化學學士（榮譽）學位。他也是 IEEE 的高級會員及皇家化學學會的會士，擁有特許化學師（CChem）資格。