These are some of our favorite books about Power Electronics.
- Power Electronics by Daniel W. Hart: The best book for beginners.
- Power semiconductor circuits by A. Straughen and S. B. Dewan – A classic and a timeless book on power electronics. Excellent for thyristor-based converters.
- Principles and Elements of Power Electronics by Barry Williams – A very good book for power electronics devices, thyristor circuits, heatsinks, drivers, inductors/transformers etc.
- Power Electronics by Ned Mohan: A good book for inverters and snubbers, as well as dc-dc converters, and their control.
- Robert W. Erickson’s Fundamentals of Power Electronics – A good book for dc/dc conversions, modelling, and control.
- POWER ELECTRONICS Principles & Applications by Joseph Vithayathil – This article covers the basics of power electronics, drives, and other related topics.
- Muhammad H. Rashid – Power Electronics: Circuits and Devices and Applications
- Muhammad H. Rashid’s Power Electronics Handbook – This book covers all aspects of power electronics, including applications to renewable energy, HVDC and drives. This book contains well-cited and reliable references to all topics related to power electronics.
- Marian K. Kazimierczuk’s Pulse-width Modulated DC/DC Power Converters – The best book to understand dc-dc converters.
- Power Electronics: Essentials and Applications by Umanand – A good book to understand PWM techniques and control power electronics.
- Keith Billings and Taylor Morey, Switch mode power supplies – This book explains in detail about various aspects of SMPS.
- Control in Power Electronics, Marian P. Kazmierkowski and R. Krishnan – A good book for power electronics control of drives.
- B. Wu and Bin Wu – A great book about multilevel inverters, Space vector modulation and high-power converters.
- Voltage source converters within power systems by A. Yazdani – Best book for modeling voltage source inverters and PLL, as well as control of inverters.
- Grid converters for photovoltaic or wind power systems by Marco Liserre, Remus Teodorescu and Pedro Rodriguez – A great book for grid connected systems.
- Design of Magnetic Components for Switched Mode Power Converts by Umanand — A good book for inductor design and transformer design for power electronic applications.
- Pulse Width Modulation for Power Converters by Lipo & Holmes – This book explains in detail about PWM techniques to power electronic converters.