Everything about Pulse-width modulation

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Pulse-width modulationA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Power to Pulse Width Modulation Sensor for Remote Power Analysis AttacksInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Pulse-Width Modulated DC-DC Power ConvertersThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Optimal Pulse-Width Modulation for Three-Level InvertersCited 220 times
5. Go sideways: Chopper (electronics)A closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Power electronicsA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Optimal Pulse-Width Modulation for Three-Level Inverters

  T. Bruckner, D.G. Holmes · 2005 · IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics · 220 citations

• Multiphase space vector pulse width modulation

  J.W. Kelly, E.G. Strangas, J.M. Miller · 2003 · IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion · 159 citations

• Improvement of pulse width modulation techniques

  G. Buja, G. Indri · 1975 · Archiv f�r Elektrotechnik · 94 citations

• Time domain comparison of pulse-width modulation schemes

  A. Kwasinski, P.T. Krein, P.L. Chapman · 2003 · IEEE Power Electronics Letters · 56 citations

• Pulse width modulation with resonant DC link converters

  G. Venkataramanan, D.M. Divan · 1993 · IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications · 54 citations

• Pulse width modulation for multi-agent systems

  Xiangyu Meng, Ziyang Meng, Tongwen Chen · 2016 · Automatica · 37 citations

• Comparison of pulse position modulation and pulse width modulation for application in optical communications

  Yangyu Fan, Roger J. Green · 2007 · Optical Engineering · 31 citations

• Relationship between two‐level space‐vector pulse‐width modulation and carrier‐based pulse‐width modulation in the over‐modulation region

  Hui Fang, Xiaoyun Feng, Wensheng Song · 2014 · IET Power Electronics · 29 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Power to Pulse Width Modulation Sensor for Remote Power Analysis Attacks

  Brian Udugama, Darshana Jayasinghe, Hassaan Saadat · 2022 · IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems · 17 citations

• Multi-locus transcranial magnetic stimulation with pulse-width modulation

  Heikki Sinisalo, Mikael Laine, Jaakko O. Nieminen · 2025 · Brain Stimulation · 14 citations

• Squeeze damping of giant electrorheological fluid tuned by pulse width modulation

  Huayan Pu, Ben Lu, Xiongxiong Wu · 2022 · Smart Materials and Structures · 11 citations

• Pulse width modulation control for stochastic Lagrange systems

  Zhaojing Wu · 2023 · Automatica · 8 citations

• Performance improvement of electrochemical micromachining employing pulse width modulation

  Himadri Sekhar Panda, B. Bhattacharyya · 2024 · Journal of Manufacturing Processes · 8 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Pulse-Width Modulated DC-DC Power ConvertersMarian K. Kazimierczuk · 2008
• 📕Laboratory Manual for Pulse-Width Modulated DC-DC Power ConvertersMarian K. Kazimierczuk, Agasthya Ayachit · 2015
• 📕Pulse Width ModulationSatish Kumar Peddapelli · 2016
• Pulse width modulation for power convertersD. Grahame Holmes, Thomas A. Lipo · 2003
• 📕Advanced Pulse-Width-ModulationDong Jiang, Zewei Shen · 2021
• Pulse Width Modulation for Control and AutomationLoganthan · 2023
• 📕Pulse Width Modulation for Control and AutomationAshok K. Loganthan, Albert A. Stonier · 2023
• 📕A delta-sigma pulse width modulator with pulse ditheringRichard S. Lewison · 1997

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