Condition Monitoring of Electrolytic Capacitors for Power Electronics Applications

To my loving mother, and fond memories of my father iv ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS It has been four and a half years since I started my PhD in fall 2002 and I was fortunate to enjoy the guidance, assistance, support, and friendship of many without whom this work would not have taken shape. Here, I hope to express my gratitude to most of them. forever grateful to them for letting me pursue my research under their guidance. Their invaluable suggestions at difficult times have contributed a lot towards the success of this thesis. I would like to thank Prof. Thomas G. Habetler for helping me to choose the research topic and being a continuous source of inspiration. I have benefited immensely from his knowledge and experience. I would also like to thank Prof. for taking some time of their busy schedule to serve on my PhD defense committee. I would like to thank Mr. Paul Springer of NEETRAC for providing the financial support for my graduate studies. I must also thank the machinists, Lorand Csizar and Louis Boulanger, who were always available and willing to help with the laboratory experimental setup. I would also like to thank Deborah King for patiently putting up with my frequent purchase requests and room reservations.

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