The Concept of Power Electronics

Power Electronics was started in 1900 with the Mercury Arc.Then the use of metallic tank rectifier, grid control vacuum tube rectifier, ignitron, pennotron and thyratron began.Until 1950 these devices were used to control the power electronics.

Power electronics evolved in 1948 with silicon transistor, which is invented by Scientist Bardeen, Brattain and Shockley in the Bell Telephone Laboratories.Currently, more modern electronic technologies are being discovered.After the SCR was invented by Bell Laboratories in 1956, the development of Power Electronics was rapid.In 1958, the second phase of electronics was evolving and commercially produced thyristors by the General Electronics Company. It introduces a new era of Power Electronics. Now a large number of devices and conversion methods are being discovered. The evolution of microelectronics facilitates rapid processing of large amounts of information. So it is possible to control a lot of energy in different means and quantities.