Portale di Ateneo - En.Unibs.it

Introduction to power electronics
Switching vs linear power electronics. Classification of power converters.
Power electronics components
Basics of semiconductor physics. Power electronics components (diodes,
FETs, Thyristors, GTO's, MOSFETs, IGBT, GTOs). Driver circuits for power
electronic components. The problem of energy dissipation of power
components.
Power electronics converters
AC-DC converters at line frequency, non-controlled and controlled. DC-DC
converters (step-up, step-down, step up-down, Cuk, full-bridge). Inverters
(DC-AC converters) sigle- and three phase. Resonant converters
(resonant load, and resonant switch).
Applications of power converters
Switching power supplies, DC-DC isolation converters. EMI,
Uninterruptible power supplies.
Basics of optics, optical and optoelectronic components
Basic of geometrical and wave optics. Incoherent and coherent light
sources, detectors, optical fibres.
Optical measurement techniques and systems
Techniques, sensors and systems for the measurement of distance and
position, speed, vibrations, fluids, temperature
2- and 3D vision for the industrial automation
Matrix optical sensors: CCD and CMOS. Vision systems and their
applications. 2D and 3D vision: dimensional measurements, surface
properties sensors, profile measurement, colour measurements.