During the last decade, many new concepts have been proposed for
improving the performance of power rectifiers and transistors. The
results of this research are dispersed in the technical literature among
journal articles and abstracts of conferences. Consequently, the
information is not readily available to researchers and practicing
engineers in the power device community. There is no cohesive treatment
of the ideas to provide an assessment of the relative merits of the
ideas.
Advanced Power Rectifier Concepts provides an in-depth treatment of the
physics of operation of advanced power rectifiers. Analytical models for
explaining the operation of all the advanced power rectifier devices
will be developed. The results off numerical simulations will be
provided to provide additional insight into the device physics and
validate the analytical models. The results of two-dimensional
simulations will be provided to corroborate the analytical models and
provide greater insight into the device operation.