New trends in electrical machines technology - Part I

This "Special Section on New Trends in Electrical Machines Technology" has drawn large interest within the electrical machines and drives community. Therefore, many authors having something to present in these specific topics have submitted their contributions for the peerreview process. The total number of submitted papers was 156 from which only 37 have been accepted for final publication. For editorial reasons, this Special Section is being published in two parts, including 18 and 19 accepted papers, respectively. For each part, the Guest Editors grouped the accepted papers into \´hot\´ topics. With respect to this first part, two main topics have been defined, namely, the "advanced applications" topic (including ten papers) and the "thermal and efficiency issues" topic (with eight papers). Each paper is briefly summarized here.