Comprehensive evaluation on efficiency and thermal loading of associated Si and SiC based PV inverter applications

IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference)

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 555-560

  Sintamarean, C ^a   Blaabjerg, F ^a   Wang, H ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Efficiency; PV inverter; thermal loading distribution

Indexed keywords

COMPREHENSIVE EVALUATION; ELECTRO-THERMAL MODEL; HIGHER EFFICIENCY; PV-INVERTER; THERMAL COUPLING; THERMAL IMPEDANCE; THERMAL LIMITATIONS; THERMAL LOADINGS;

EFFICIENCY; INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS; SILICON; SILICON CARBIDE; THERMAL LOAD; TOPOLOGY;

HEAT SINKS;

EID: 84893583545     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IECON.2013.6699195     Document Type: Conference Paper

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