A high-power-density DC-DC converter for distributed PV architectures

IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 791-798

  Agamy, Mohammed S ^a,b   Chi, Song ^b   Elasser, Ahmed ^b   Harfman Todorovic, Maja ^b   Jiang, Yan ^b   Mueller, Frank ^b   Tao, Fengfeng ^a  

^a GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

DC DC converters; distributed photovoltaic (PV) architectures; partial power processing; silicon carbide devices

Indexed keywords

HIGH-POWER-DENSITY; MAXIMUM POWER POINT TRACKING; PARTIAL POWER; PHOTOVOLTAIC; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS; PV INSTALLATIONS; SILICON CARBIDE DEVICES; SYSTEM INTEGRATION;

HVDC POWER TRANSMISSION; SILICON CARBIDE;

DC-DC CONVERTERS;

EID: 84875583873     PISSN: 21563381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOTOV.2012.2230217     Document Type: Article

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