High Voltage Engineering and Insulating Materials:

Electric field strength, surface charges, dielectricas discharges and breakdowns in

gases,

liquid and solid insulators. Processing and material prameters of technical insulating

materials.

Power Electronic Applications in Drive Systems:

Current and voltage source inverter systems, cycloconverter; converter and control
design for

dc drives, reversing operation dc drives, three-phase asynchronous and

synchronous drives,

multiphase switched reluctance drives, drives with recuperation; pulse-width-

modulation for

drive converter; dimensioning of converter systems

Power Electronic Applications in High Voltage Grid:

High voltage and high current power electronics components; cooling principles;
serial and

parallel connection of components; multiphase and multilevel converter topologies;

control

structures for grid connection and parallel operation; applications like HVDC and
frequency

converters;