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="rober-3218356.tif"/> </fig> In my previous column, I started by asking which led the way in the advancement of power electronics technology—devices or topologies? I then reviewed the early history of “switched mode power conversion,” given that converters that used electromechanical switches like vibrators were switched mode power. That column ended with a discussion of the developments in power electronics in the 1960s after the first solid state switches started becoming generally available.

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