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The following topics are dealt with: application of power electronics in home appliance, industry, aerospace, and automotive system; distributed generation and smart grids; power electronics emerging technologies; power semiconductors, power integrated circuits and passive components; wide band gap power semiconductor devices and technologies; applications of power electronics in power systems and generations/FACTS; motion drives and motion control; renewable energy technologies; analysis and design of electrical machines; hard-switching and soft-switching static power converters and UPS; power quality issues, harmonic problems and solutions; and modelling and simulation of power electronics.