Soft switched AC-link direct-connect photovoltaic inverter

2008 IEEE International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies, ICSET 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 116-120

  Amirabadi, Mahshid ^a   Balakrishnan, Anand ^a   Toliyat, Hamid A ^a   Alexander, William ^a,b  

^a Texas AandM University   (United States)

^b Ideal Power Converters Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AC SWITCHES; BUCK-BOOST CONVERTERS; COMMON-MODE FILTERS; PHOTOVOLTAIC INVERTERS; POWER TRANSFERS; PWM TECHNIQUES; SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC POWER; SWITCHING LOSS; UTILITY GRIDS; ZERO-VOLTAGE SWITCHING;

ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; ENERGY CONSERVATION; POWER TRANSFORMERS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; SWITCHED FILTERS;

SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 63149133864     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSET.2008.4746983     Document Type: Conference Paper

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