Mission profile based multi-disciplinary analysis of power modules in single-phase transformerless photovoltaic inverters

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Yang, Yongheng ^a   Wang, Huai ^a   Blaabjerg, Frede ^a   Ma, Ke ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Mission profile; Photovoltaic; Reliability; Single phase system; Thermal stress; Voltage source converter

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY; MISSION PROFILE; MULTI-DISCIPLINARY ANALYSIS; PHOTOVOLTAIC; PHOTOVOLTAIC INVERTERS; SINGLE PHASE SYSTEM; TRANSFORMERLESS INVERTERS; VOLTAGE SOURCE CONVERTERS;

POWER CONVERTERS; RELIABILITY; THERMAL STRESS; TOPOLOGY;

POWER ELECTRONICS;

EID: 84890250505     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EPE.2013.6631986     Document Type: Conference Paper

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