2. Different converter structures

In parallel with component development, engineers are exploring static converter architectures that make the most of existing or emerging components. At this point in the introduction, the reader can retain an initial classification of converter types (figure 9 ). It's worth pointing out that power electronics terminology includes terms developed since around 1920 (with the first speed controllers for electric motors), some of which may come as a surprise. For example, "inverters" are used to convert DC energy into AC energy. Anglo-Saxons have kept the term inverter, itself a contraction of "inverted rectification", since undulation can of course be conceived as the dual operation of rectification, which is concerned with producing a continuous...