An optimized transformerless photovoltaic grid-connected inverter

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1887-1895

  Xiao, Huafeng ^a   Xie, Shaojun ^a   Chen, Yang ^a   Huang, Ruhai ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

Author keywords

Clamping; common mode voltage; full bridge inverter; unipolar sinusoidal pulsewidth modulation (SPWM)

Indexed keywords

CLAMPING; COMMON MODE VOLTAGE; COMMONMODE; FULL-BRIDGE; FULL-BRIDGE INVERTER; FULL-BRIDGE INVERTERS; GRID CONNECTED INVERTERS; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; INPUT VOLTAGES; OUTPUT CURRENT; POWER DEVICES; POWER PROCESSING; SINUSOIDAL PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; TOTAL LOSS; TRANSFORMERLESS; VOLTAGE STRESS;

ELECTRIC INVERTERS; MODULATION; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; POWER CONVERTERS; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; TOPOLOGY;

VOLTAGE DIVIDERS;

EID: 79954564709     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2010.2054056     Document Type: Article

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