Z-source-converter-based energy-recycling zero-voltage electronic loads

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 56, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 4894-4902

  Rosas Caro, Julio Cesar ^a   Peng, Fang Zheng ^a   Cha, Honnyong ^a   Rogers, Craig ^b  

^a Madero City Technological Institute   (Mexico)

^b Michigan State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Electronic load (EL); Ideal current source; Z source converter.

Indexed keywords

CONSTANT CURRENT; CURRENT SOURCES; ELECTRONIC LOAD; ENERGY RECYCLING; HIGH-POWER; I - V CURVE; IDEAL CURRENT SOURCE; MICROGENERATION; PERFORMANCE TESTS; PHOTOVOLTAIC; POWER SUPPLY; POWER-RECYCLING; SOURCE VOLTAGE; VARIABLE IMPEDANCE; Z-SOURCE CONVERTERS; ZERO-VOLTAGE CONDITIONS;

PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; POWER CONVERTERS; RECYCLING; TOPOLOGY;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

EID: 77953562243     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2009.2026374     Document Type: Article

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