Power Conditioning and Power Protection for Electronic Systems

Dear Colleagues,

Welcome to the Special Issue of Energies on “Power Conditioning and Protection of Electronic Systems”.

State-of-the-art electronic circuits are an integral part of electrical systems such as LED lighting, white goods and industrial electronics. In the modern scenario of IOT and electronics, complex integrated circuits, progressing towards system-on-a-chip (SoC) concepts, are powered by DC power rails as low as 1.2–0.7 V. Complex power conversion interfaces are used to power these systems from our central AC supply or a renewable resource on-site.

Modern electronic systems are uniquely vulnerable to power line disturbances because they bring together high-energy power lines and sensitive low-power integrated circuits controlling power semiconductors in the conversion interfaces. External disturbances to renewable sources can also affect the reliability of the energy supply. The term ‘power conditioning’ deals with a broad class of techniques and products designed to improve or assure the quality of the energy source powering sensitive electronic systems.

Utilities realize that different types of customers require different levels of reliability, and make every effort to supply disturbance-free power. However, normal occurrences, most of which are beyond control and are acts of nature, make it impossible to provide disturbance-free power with 100% reliability. In addition to these external disturbances, sources within buildings, such as the switching of heavy inductive loads, poor wiring, overloaded circuits, and inadequate grounding, can cause electrical disturbances. With the rapid advances of semiconductor technology with nanometer feature size transistors, power quality issues are becoming serious concerns for reliable operation.

This Special Issue is dedicated to the subject of Power Conditioning and Protection of Electronic Systems where we invite researchers and industry experts to contribute research papers and review articles on the state of the art and future.

Assoc. Prof. Nihal Kularatna
Guest Editor

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