Special Issue “Advanced DC-DC Power Converters and Switching Converters”

Furthermore, power electronics is strictly linked with several fields of technological growth, such as consumer electronics, IT and communications, electrical networks, utilities, industrial drives, robotics, transport system, and automotive. [...]the widespread use of power electronics enables cost savings and minimization of losses in several technology applications required for sustainable economic growth. In the paper contributions, arise also the key role of new wide-band-gap semiconductor devices in the advanced circuital topologies, that allow a significant impact on improving the power converters’ energy efficiency. [...]the topics covered in the articles described in the following section lead toward the development of power electronic switching converters more and more efficiently, with reduced volume and acceptable costs for sustainable growth, in several areas of energy conversion, and storage, as well as of the electrical power systems. 2. Renewable Energy Conversion In the field of renewable energy solar photovoltaic (PV) systems and energy conversion technologies lead to wide research opportunities in green energy source use. Furthermore, an accurate steady-state detection methodology is developed [2]. [...]the modeling procedure is experimentally validated to demonstrate its accuracy and usefulness.