A Single Diode Circuit
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This chapter describes a single diode circuit. Most of the power electronic
applications operate at a relative high voltage and in such cases, the voltage
drop across the power diode tends to be small. It is quite often justifiable
to use the ideal diode model. An ideal diode has zero conduction drop when
it is forward-biased and has zero current when it is reverse-biased. The explanation
and the analysis presented below is based on the ideal diode model.
This chapter describes the circuit of a half-wave rectifier. It is simulated
using different programs. The next chapter is on a half-wave rectifier with
a free-wheeling diode.
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