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Designing Impedance Networks Converters

  • Reveals the essential mechanisms of designing an impedance source converter
  • Shows how to develop a systematic design methodology for designing impedance source converters
  • Helps researchers and engineers in power electronics and other related industrial fields to understand power converters, especially Zsource converters, in the view of impedance
  • Guides engineers so they can carry out improvements and new design of power converters for all kinds of applications
  • Offers a new perspective on understanding power converters from impedance
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Studies in Systems, Decision and Control (SSDC, volume 119)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
  2. A Brief History of Power Electronics Converters

    • Guidong Zhang, Bo Zhang, Zhong Li
    Pages 1-6
  3. Voltage-, Current-, and Z-source Converters

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
    2. Voltage-, Current-, and Z-source Converters

      • Guidong Zhang, Bo Zhang, Zhong Li
      Pages 9-24
    3. Impedance Source Converters: State-of-the-Art

      • Guidong Zhang, Bo Zhang, Zhong Li
      Pages 25-33
  4. Impedance Networks Matching

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 35-35
    2. Impedance Networks and Their Matching

      • Guidong Zhang, Bo Zhang, Zhong Li
      Pages 37-43
    3. Design Methodology of Impedance Networks Converters

      • Guidong Zhang, Bo Zhang, Zhong Li
      Pages 45-51
  5. Designing Novel Impedance Networks Converters

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 53-53
    2. 3-Z-Network Boost Converter

      • Guidong Zhang, Bo Zhang, Zhong Li
      Pages 55-82
    3. Z-source Half-Bridge Converter

      • Guidong Zhang, Bo Zhang, Zhong Li
      Pages 83-105
    4. Dual-Output Z-source Half-Bridge Converter

      • Guidong Zhang, Bo Zhang, Zhong Li
      Pages 107-123
    5. Conclusions

      • Guidong Zhang, Bo Zhang, Zhong Li
      Pages 125-125

About this book

Research and application of impedance network converters are very popular in recent years, but it still lacks of understanding of and guidelines of impedance networks application, therefore, there is quiet a large potential market about impedance networks converters. This book can serve as a teaching material for graduates and guidelines for engineers as designing an impedance source converter.


The main purpose of this book is to understand impedance networks of nonlinear switch circuits and impedance networks matching, which will further put forward understanding of all power converters in view of impedance networks. Taking the impedance network matchings into account leads to a set of criteria for designing an impedance source converter, which is to replace the traditional tedious, manual and experience-dependent design methods.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, China

    Guidong Zhang

  • South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China

    Bo Zhang

  • FernUniversität in Hagen, Hagen, Germany

    Zhong Li

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Designing Impedance Networks Converters

  • Authors: Guidong Zhang, Bo Zhang, Zhong Li

  • Series Title: Studies in Systems, Decision and Control

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63655-9

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-63654-2Published: 28 July 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87606-1Published: 12 May 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-63655-9Published: 22 July 2017

  • Series ISSN: 2198-4182

  • Series E-ISSN: 2198-4190

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 125

  • Number of Illustrations: 34 b/w illustrations, 36 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Energy Systems

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eBook USD 99.00
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  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 129.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 129.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

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