An all SiC MOSFET high performance PV converter cell

2013 15th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications, EPE 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  De, Dipankar ^a   Castellazzi, Alberto ^a   Solomon, Adane ^a   Trentin, Andrew ^a   Minami, Masataka ^b   Hikihara, Takashi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Efficiency; MOSFET; Multilevel converters; Photovoltaic; Silicon Carbide (SiC)

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION; INDUCTIVE LOAD CURRENT; MOS-FET; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; PHOTOVOLTAIC; SILICON CARBIDES (SIC); THREE-LEVEL INVERTERS;

EFFICIENCY; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; POWER ELECTRONICS; SCHOTTKY BARRIER DIODES; SILICON CARBIDE; TECHNOLOGY;

MOSFET DEVICES;

EID: 84890208631     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EPE.2013.6634642     Document Type: Conference Paper

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