High Performance Power Converters: An Engineering Systems Approach

Abstract

Ever since the transistor was introduced in the 1950’s, semiconductors have offered an ever increasing level of performance, providing exponentially greater applications. Life today would be vastly different without semiconductors. The successive introduction of the SCR (silicon controlled rectifier), the CTO (gated turn off thyristor) and then the ICBT (insulated gate bipolar transistor) has offered new, higher power applications for semiconductors.