Power Electronics

Participants join a Power Electronics course to understand how electrical power is efficiently converted, controlled, and conditioned using semiconductor devices. The course helps learners build strong fundamentals of power electronic components such as diodes, thyristors, MOSFETs, and IGBTs, along with converters like rectifiers, choppers, inverters, and cycloconverters. It bridges theory with practical applications in industries such as electric vehicles, renewable energy systems, power supplies, and industrial drives. Students also join the course to strengthen core ECE/EE concepts, prepare for internships, core engineering jobs, and competitive exams, and gain industry-relevant knowledge essential for careers in power systems and power electronics design.

1. What power electronics is

2. Typical applications (motor control, power supplies, battery charging)

3. How power electronics differs from low-power analog circuits.

4. Power Semiconductor Devices

5. Diodes, SCR (thyristors), BJT, MOSFET, IGBT

6. Characteristics, operation, ratings, and protection.

7. Uncontrolled and controlled rectifiers

8. Single-phase & three-phase systems

9. Output waveforms and control.

10. AC voltage controllers

11. Cycloconverters

12. Control techniques and applications.

13. Non-isolated types: Buck, Boost, Buck-Boost, Isolated types and their analysis.

14. Single-phase & three-phase inverters

15. Modulation techniques for controlling output.