Photovoltaic inverter with high efficiency over a wide operation area - A practical approach

IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference)

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 912-917

  Preckwinkel, Heiko ^a   Krishna, Dvmm ^a   Frohleke, Norbert ^a   Bocker, Joachim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRIVING FACTORS; INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS; INSTALLATION COSTS; PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENTS; PHOTOVOLTAIC INVERTERS; POWER RANGE; PV INVERTER; VOLTAGE RANGES;

INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS; INDUSTRY; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; RESEARCH; TOPOLOGY;

EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84856540070     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IECON.2011.6119432     Document Type: Conference Paper

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