High-efficiency inverter for photovoltaic applications

2010 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2010 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 2803-2810

  Trubitsyn, Aleksey ^a   Pierquet, Brandon J ^a   Hayman, Alexander K ^a   Gamache, Garet E ^b   Sullivan, Charles R ^b   Perreault, David J ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

AC module; Microinverter; Module integrated converter; Photovoltaic power systems

Indexed keywords

AC MODULE; AC-GRID; CIRCUIT TOPOLOGY; CONTROL METHODS; CYCLOCONVERTERS; DESIGN AND CONTROL; HALF-WAVE; HIGH EFFICIENCY; INTEGRATED CONVERTERS; MICROINVERTER; PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS; PHOTOVOLTAIC POWER SYSTEMS; POWER CONVERSION; SEMICONDUCTOR TRANSISTORS; SERIES RESONANT INVERTER; SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAICS;

DC POWER TRANSMISSION; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; ENERGY CONVERSION; HIGH FREQUENCY TRANSFORMERS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS;

SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

EID: 78650132594     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ECCE.2010.5618163     Document Type: Conference Paper

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