Issues on solar-generator interfacing with current-fed MPP-tracking converters

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2409-2419

  Suntio, Teuvo ^a   Leppäaho, Jari ^a   Huusari, Juha ^a   Nousiainen, Lari ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

current source; Current fed (CF) converter; maximum power point (MPP); solar cell; voltage source

Indexed keywords

CURRENT CONTROL; CURRENT SOURCES; CURRENT-FED (CF) CONVERTER; ENERGY SYSTEMS; INPUT TERMINALS; MAXIMUM POWER POINT; NEGATIVE INCREMENTAL RESISTANCES; OPEN CIRCUIT CONDITIONS; OPERATING RANGES; OUTPUT VOLTAGES; SOLAR ARRAYS; SOLAR GENERATOR; SOLAR PANELS; STABILITY PROBLEM; SUPERBUCK; TRANSFORMATION METHODS; VOLTAGE SOURCE; VOLTAGE-FED CONVERTER;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ENERGY HARVESTING; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 77956908696     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2010.2048580     Document Type: Article

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