This textbook, designed for undergraduate students of electrical engineering, offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to state-of-the-art power semiconductor devices and power electronic converters with an emphasis on design, analysis and realization of numerous types of systems. Each topic is discussed in sufficient depth to expose the fundamental principles, concepts, techniques, methods and circuits, necessary to thoroughly understand power electronic systems. This book is recommended in Calcutta Institute of Technology, West Bengal. Key Features: Theory and applications are interlaced with design-oriented solved and unsolved problems. Easy-to-understand explanation of the mechanisms of several converter circuits is offered. Easy-to-understand explanation of the mechanisms of several converter circuits is offered. Useful ready-to-use computer programs are introduced in most chapters for the computation of harmonics. Standard software packages such as PSPICE, ELECTRONICSWORKBENCH, are discussed to give a real-world exposure to practical design aspects of power electronic circuits. New applications of power electronics, like PWM audio amplifiers are introduced