Novel three-phase three-level-stacked neutral point clamped grid-tied solar inverter with a split phase controller

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 2856-2866

  Wang, Yong ^a   Wang, Fei ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Grid connected; Split phase control; Three levelstacked neutral point clamped (3L SNPC); Topology

Indexed keywords

DC-LINK VOLTAGE CONTROLS; GRID-CONNECTED; MAXIMUM POWER POINT TRACKING CONTROLS; NEUTRAL POINT CLAMPED; PHOTOVOLTAIC GRID CONNECTED SYSTEM; POWER LOSS DISTRIBUTIONS; SPLIT-PHASE CONTROL; THREE-LEVEL NEUTRAL POINT CLAMPED;

ELECTRIC INVERTERS; PHASE CONTROL; TOPOLOGY;

POWER CONVERTERS;

EID: 84885234568     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2012.2226475     Document Type: Article

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