Solar battery chargers for NiMH batteries

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1600-1609

  Boico, Florent ^a   Lehman, Brad ^a   Shujaee, Khalil ^b  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CLARK ATLANTA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Battery charger; Maximum power point; Solar

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FAILURE ANALYSIS; POWER CONTROL; SOLAR CELLS; TEMPERATURE CONTROL;

CHARGE-CONTROL METHODS; MAXIMUM POWER POINT; SOLAR BATTERY CHARGES;

CHARGING (BATTERIES);

EID: 34548744613     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2007.904164     Document Type: Article

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