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• R.W. Erickson and D. Maksimovic, "Fundamentals of Power Electronics", Springer Press, 1997.
• G. YANIK was born in Istanbul, Turkey,
• in 19 He received his B.S. and M.S.
• degrees in Electrical Engineering at Yildiz
• Technical University, Istanbul, in 2008
• and 2011, respectively.
• He is a Research Assistant in the
• Department of Electrical Engineering,
• Yildiz Technical University since 2008.
• His research interests include DC-DC converters, soft
• switching techniques, power factor correction and inductor design.
• E. ISEN was born in Bandırma, Turkey,
• in 19 He received his B.S., M.S. and
• Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering at
• Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, in
• 2003, 2005 and 2012, respectively.
• He was a Research Assistant in the
• Department of Electrical Engineering,
• Yildiz Technical University between 2005 and 2012. He is an
• Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and
• Electronics Engineering, Kirklareli University. His current
• research interests include grid connected inverters, renewable
• energy conversion systems and power electronics.
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• Daniela Dzhonova-Atanasova was born in Vidin,
• Bulgaria in 1963. She graduated from the Technical
• University of Sofia, Bulgaria. There she received her
• MSc degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1988 and
• her PhD degree in 1992.
• Her research interests are in the area of Heat and
• Mass Transfer Processes, Fluid Dynamics, Energy
• Efficiency in Chemical Engineering and Renewable
• Energy Resources. Since 1994 she has been working
• at the Institute of Chemical Engineering at the
• Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria, as
• a researcher and Assistant Professor. Since 2011 she has been an Associate
• Professor at the Institute of Chemical Engineering. She was a lecturer in Fluid
• Mechanics at the Technical University of Sofia, and in Ocean Energy
• Conversion (in English) at the European Polytecnical University, Pernik.
• Dr. Dzhonova is a member of the Union of Chemists in Bulgaria.
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