A single-stage microinverter without using eletrolytic capacitors

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 2677-2687

  Hu, Haibing ^a   Harb, Souhib ^b   Kutkut, Nasser H ^c   Shen, Z John ^d   Batarseh, Issa ^d  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

^b Texas A and M University   (United States)

^c Power Designers   (United States)

^d University of Central Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Flyback; Microinverter; Photovoltaic; Power decoupling

Indexed keywords

DECOUPLING CAPACITOR; FLYBACK; FLYBACK CONVERTERS; GRID CONNECTED PV SYSTEM; HIGH POWER DENSITY; MICRO INVERTERS; PHOTOVOLTAIC; POWER DECOUPLING;

ELECTROLYTIC CAPACITORS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS;

TOPOLOGY;

EID: 84880729500     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2012.2224886     Document Type: Article

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