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Customers find this book an excellent reference for power electronics and a supplement to their library. They appreciate the good content and clear explanations. However, some customers report issues with the binding quality – it seems weak and needs extra glue to reinforce it.
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Fundamentals of Power Electronics, Third Edition, is an up-to-date and authoritative text and reference book on power electronics. This new edition retains the original objective and philosophy of focusing on the fundamental principles, models, and technical requirements needed for designing practical power electronic systems while adding a wealth of new material. Improved features of this new edition include: new material on switching loss mechanisms and their modeling; wide bandgap semiconductor devices; a more rigorous treatment of averaging; explanation of the Nyquist stability criterion; incorporation of the Tan and Middlebrook model for current programmed control; a new chapter on digital control of switching converters; major new chapters on advanced techniques of design-oriented analysis including feedback and extra-element theorems; average current control; new material on input filter design; new treatment of averaged switch modeling, simulation, and indirect power;and sampling effects in DCM, CPM, and digital control.
Fundamentals of Power Electronics, Third Edition, is intended for use in introductory power electronics courses and related fields for both senior undergraduates and first-year graduate students interested in converter circuits and electronics, control systems, and magnetic and power systems. It will also be an invaluable reference for professionals working in power electronics, power conversion, and analog and digital electronics.
Publisher : Springer; Third Edition 2020 (August 16, 2020)
Language : English
Hardcover : 1103 pages
ISBN-10 : 3030438791
ISBN-13 : 978-3030438791
Item Weight : 4.91 pounds
Dimensions : 7 x 2.25 x 10 inches
by John Bopp
Supplemental textbook for my Adv. Power Elec. Course
Excellent book for power electronics. Small signal analsis was extremely helpful for control loop design. Highly recommend.
by Michael & Jenn S.
Excellent
This is an excellent book on Power Electronics. Best one in my library of many. Covers a lot, and it’s explained well. There are a few times where the authors seem to skip over important steps without explaining, but those are rare.
by pmw1964
Textbook
This book is being used to teach. I purchased for my faculty member. It is exactly what he needs.
by KH
Great book but poor binding
This book is an excellent EE resource for power electronics. I really like it, and always the first book I grab to use as reference in power electronics. However, I have to use extra glue to reinforce the binding. The binding is very poor.
by Amazon Customer
Only Half the Book..
Only half the book was shipped. Also, received soft cover instead of hard cover.
by tnmats
Great book. Horrid book binding
The book has exceptional content, it’s *the* reference book for power management system design.The binding is another story though. My book had 34 pages fall out as soon as I opened it and at least another 100 pages seem ready to fall out. The glue used at the printing plant not only seemed insufficient but looked like it was crumbling already.
by Amazon Customer
Good content, bad hardcover
This book explains in a very organized way the differents converters topologies , how to analyze and model them. It is advised that you have a basic understanding of power electronics devices and control theory. Not intended for being your first book in power electronics even if the title suggests it. I downvoted one star for the poor hardcover as you can see in the picture
by SP
Poor printing quality and binding
The book content and witing is phenomenal, this is really a reference book in this field. I have previous 2nd edition that I purchased when it was published. Unfortunatelly, I had to return this new book, and cancel the order because the printing on this edition was messed up. The entire page content is shifted several lines up, leaving a large blank space at the bottom of each page. It is very annoying for reading. Also, the cover of the book I received was scratched and had some stains on it, probably due to poorly shippping packaging. The binding seems pretty weak, for book of this size, and it looks like other buyers noticed the same.I am not sure what happened, why is this edition of so poor printing quality. The previous edition was superb, I am was using it at work often as reference textbook, and it held together all these years.
by Emmanuel
Private research and for work
by Brendan Lynskey
Very good, especially when read in conjunction with the Coursera courses in Power Electronics
by Amazon Customer
The material covered in this book is absolutely fantastic.However, the quality of the hardcover is severely lacking. At 1084 pages, this is a hefty text and the weak and low quality binding feels substandard. I don’t see it lasting very long with any significant use.Does not help that Amazon shipped the book by just throwing it into a padded envelope with no support. Luckily it arrived safely, but looking at past reviews you can see that not everyone was as lucky.
by Luis
The book arrived with the cover and some sheets detached from the rest of the book.
by Catalin Neacsu
The material of the book covers very well the topic of power electronics. However, my hard cover book hinge collapsed soon due to the large size of it (+1000pgs) so I recommend a paper cover whenever is available.