Long-lifetime power inverter for photovoltaic AC modules

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 2593-2601

  Rodriguez, Cuauhtemoc ^a,b   Amaratunga, Gehan A J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b Cambridge Consultants Limited   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

DC AC power conversion; Energy conversion; Inverters; Photovoltaic (PV) power systems; Reliability

Indexed keywords

ALUMINA; AMPLIFICATION; BRIDGE CIRCUITS; BRIDGES; CAPACITORS; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; ELECTROLYTIC CAPACITORS; ENERGY STORAGE; LIGHT METALS; MODULATION; STAGES; TOPOLOGY;

ALUMINUM ELECTROLYTIC CAPACITORS; BRIDGE RECTIFIER (BR); BUCK CONVERTERS; CIRCUIT TOPOLOGIES; CURRENT INJECTIONS; CURRENT MODE (CM); DC-LINK; DISTORTION (DEFORMATION); FULL BRIDGE; GRID CURRENTS; HIGH TEMPERATURE (HT); HIGH-FREQUENCY (HF); HIGH-RELIABILITY; LOW POWERS; PEAK EFFICIENCY; PHOTOVOLTAIC (PV); PHOTOVOLTAIC (PV) SYSTEMS; POWER INVERTERS; PULSE WIDTH (PW); SINE WAVES; TERMINALS (AIRPORT); TOTAL CURRENT; ZERO-VOLTAGE-SWITCHING (ZVS);

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS;

EID: 47049090317     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2008.922401     Document Type: Article

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