High-frequency AC-link PV inverter

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 281-291

  Amirabadi, Mahshid ^a   Balakrishnan, Anand ^a,b   Toliyat, Hamid A ^a   Alexander, William C ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FREESCALE SEMICONDUCTOR INC   (United States)

^c Ideal Power Converters Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Inverters; Photovoltaic (PV) systems; Zero voltage switching

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS;

ALTERNATING CURRENT; COMMERCIAL FACILITIES; FREQUENCY OF OPERATION; LONG TERM PERFORMANCE; MAXIMUM POWER POINT TRACKING; PHOTOVOLTAIC INVERTERS; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS; SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS;

ELECTROLYTIC CAPACITORS;

EID: 84880898487     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2013.2245616     Document Type: Article

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