Reliability of candidate photovoltaic module-integrated-inverter (PV-MII) topologies-A usage model approach

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 3019-3027

  Harb, Souhib ^a   Balog, Robert S ^a  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Lifetime; Microinverter; MIL HDBK 217; Photovoltaic (PV); Power decoupling; Reliability; Single phase inverter

Indexed keywords

LIFETIME; MICRO INVERTERS; MIL-HDBK-217; PHOTOVOLTAIC; POWER DECOUPLING; SINGLE-PHASE INVERTERS;

ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTROLYTIC CAPACITORS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; TOPOLOGY;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 84883246588     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2012.2222447     Document Type: Article

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