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Prof Barry Wayne Williams
Power Electronics:
Devices, Drivers, Applications, and Passive Components
There is two copies of
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The free book is in four
parts.
Part 1 covers
semiconductor switching devices, their electrical and thermal characteristics
and properties. Part 2 describes device driving and protection, while part 3
presents a number of generic applications. The final part, Part 4, introduces
capacitors, magnetic components, and resistors, and their characteristics
relevant to power electronic applications.
All of the documents
below are in PDF format 
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Title page and Table
of Contents (here
for sample of version requiring registration)
- Basic Semiconductor Physics and
Technology (here for sample of
version requiring registration)
- The pn Junction (here for sample of version requiring
registration)
- Power Switching Devices and their Static
Electrical Characteristics (here for
sample of version requiring registration)
- Electrical Ratings and Characteristics of
Power Semiconductor Switching Devices (here
for sample of version requiring registration)
- Cooling of Power Switching Semiconductor Devices
(here for sample of version requiring
registration)
- Load, Switch, and Commutation
Considerations (here for sample of
version requiring registration)
- Driving Transistors and Thyristors (here for sample of version requiring
registration)
- Protecting Diodes, Transistors, and
Thyristors (here for sample of
version requiring registration)
- Switching-aid Circuits with Energy
Recovery (here for sample of version
requiring registration)
- Series and Parallel Device Operation and
Protection (here for sample of
version requiring registration)
- Naturally Commutating Converters (here for sample of version requiring
registration)
- AC Voltage Regulators (here for sample of version requiring
registration)
- DC Choppers (here for sample of version requiring
registration)
- Power Inverters (here for sample of version requiring
registration)
- Switched-mode and Resonant dc Power
Supplies (here for sample of version
requiring registration)
- Capacitors
- Soft Magnetic Materials
- Resistors
Bibliography and Index
The 74 non-trivial worked examples cover the key issues in power
electronics.
What's new!
BWW
The free registration version has many more worked examples, 30% more
information, including a chapter on HVDC and FACTS.
Also,
pages are better utilised so that, with 2 text pages per pdf page, fewer
pages need be printed.
A
large print version is also available.
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