Abstract

<fig orientation="portrait" position="float" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <graphic orientation="portrait" position="float" xlink:href="white-3193858.tif"/> </fig> The dilemma of which came first, the chicken or the egg, has been debated for millennia. A more recent debate among power electronics engineers is which comes first—innovations in devices or innovations in circuits? This was, as I recall, even the topic of a rap at session at an IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC) a few years back. Semiconductor device engineers argue that without advances in new and improved devices advances in circuits and topologies would not be possible. Circuit engineers argue that the basic nature of the switching devices has never changed and that advances in power electronics are all due to innovations in circuits and topologies.

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