Extreme high efficiency PV-power converters

2009 13th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications, EPE '09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Burger, Bruno ^a   Kranzer, Dirk ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEMS ISE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Converter Circuit; Efficiency; IGBT; Photovoltaic; Silicon Carbide

Indexed keywords

AC CURRENTS; CONVERTER CIRCUIT; CONVERTER CIRCUITS; DC CURRENT; EUROPEAN MARKETS; HIGH EFFICIENCY; INVERTER TOPOLOGIES; LOW FREQUENCY; MULTILEVEL INVERTER TOPOLOGY; NATIONAL STANDARD; POWER SEMICONDUCTORS; SOLAR GENERATOR;

ACTIVE FILTERS; DC GENERATORS; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; GALLIUM ALLOYS; GALLIUM NITRIDE; HIGH FREQUENCY TRANSFORMERS; INSULATED GATE BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS (IGBT); PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; POWER ELECTRONICS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM; SILICON CARBIDE; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; TOPOLOGY;

SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS;

EID: 72949108559     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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