| Lecturer (lecture): | Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ingmar Kallfass |
| Lecturer (exercise): | Tobias Fink, M.Sc. |
| Location of lecture: | V47.03 |
| Location of exercise: | V47.03 |
| Dates of lecture: | Tuesday, 9:45 am – 11:15 am |
| Dates of exercise: | Wednesday, 9:45 am – 11:15 am |
| Degree program: | M.Sc. Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, University of Stuttgart |
| Language: | Material: German and English; Lecture and Exercise: German (even years), English (odd years) |
| SWS / ECTS: | 2 + 2 in the summer term, 6 ECTS |
| Examination format: | Written |
Lecture content
- Motivation for modern power electronics
- Energy transition and market development
- Sustainability and circular economy
- Fundamentals of time-interval-based analysis
- Method of assumed switching states
- Review: Fundamentals of Power Electronics
- Diode rectifiers (half-wave, bridge, midpoint)
- Self-commutated active rectifiers (VSR, Vienna rectifier)
- Line-commutated active rectifiers (thyristor circuits)
- Motivation: Transformer size and high-frequency operation
- Second-order resonant circuits
- Quasi-resonant converters (ZVS, ZCS)
- LLC resonant converters
- Transient resonant snubber networks (three-point circuits)
- Applications: SMPS, electric mobility, process power supplies
- Current and voltage measurement techniques
- Control and gate driving
- Gate drivers
- Contactors
- Implementation on microcontrollers and FPGAs
- Solar energy: PV inverters, MPP tracking
- Wind power: generator topologies, grid feed-in
- High-voltage direct current transmission (HVDC)
- Hydrogen production (electrolysis)
- Systematic topology synthesis
- Minimization of switch count
- Loss and cost optimization
- Application examples
Ingmar Kallfass
Prof. Dr.-Ing.Institute Director
Tobias Fink
M.Sc.Research Assistant