Laboratory Manual for Pulse-Width Modulated DC-DC Power Converters

Designed to complement a range of power electronics study resources, this unique lab manual helps students to gain a deep understanding of the operation, modeling, analysis, design, and performance of pulse-width modulated (PWM) DC-DC power converters.  Exercises focus on three essential areas of power electronics: open-loop power stages; small-signal modeling, design of feedback loops and PWM DC-DC converter control schemes; and semiconductor devices such as silicon, silicon carbide and gallium nitride.

Meeting the standards required by industrial employers, the lab manual combines programming language with a simulation tool designed for proficiency in the theoretical and practical concepts. Students and instructors can choose from an extensive list of topics involving simulations on MATLAB, SABER, or SPICE-based platforms, enabling readers to gain the most out of the prelab, inlab, and postlab activities.

The laboratory exercises have been taught and continuously improved for over 25 years by Marian K. Kazimierczuk thanks to constructive student feedback and valuable suggestions on possible workroom improvements. This up-to-date and informative teaching material is now available for the benefit of a wide audience.

Key features:

• Includes complete designs to give students a quick overview of the converters, their characteristics, and fundamental analysis of operation.
• Compatible with any programming tool (MATLAB, Mathematica, or Maple) and any circuit simulation tool (PSpice, LTSpice, Synopsys SABER, PLECS, etc.).
• Quick design section enables students and instructors to verify their design methodology for instant simulations.
• Presents lab exercises based on the most recent advancements in power electronics, including multiple-output power converters, modeling, current- and voltage-mode control schemes, and power semiconductor devices.
• Provides comprehensive appendices to aid basic understanding of the fundamental circuits, programming and simulation tools.
• Contains a quick component selection list of power MOSFETs and diodes together with their ratings, important specifications and Spice models.

Marian K. Kazimierczuk, Wright State University, Ohio, USA
Marian K. Kazimierczuk is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Wright State University’s Department of Electrical Engineering. He has taught graduate courses in high-frequency electronics for 30 years and his research interests include: RF power amplifiers, power electronics, high-frequency magnetics and renewable energy sources. He has published seven books, over 160 journal papers and over 200 conference papers. Marian K. Kazimierczuk also holds seven patents, is an IEEE Fellow and serves as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems and International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications.

Agasthya Ayachit, Wright State University, Ohio, USA
Agasthya Ayachit is a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Wright State University working towards his PhD. In this position he has been teaching the following labs: (1) Power Electronics I (power stages of PWM converters and semiconductor power devices), (2) Power Electronics II (modelling and control of PWM converters), (3) High-Frequency Magnetic Components, and (4) Radio-Frequency Power Amplifiers. He graduated with his Masters’ degree from Wright State University in 2011 after which he served as a lecturer at Pennsylvania State University for one year where he taught Micro-electronics, power electronics and VLSI courses.