Design and demonstration of a 3.6-kV-120-V/10-kVA solid-state transformer for smart grid application

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 3982-3996

  She, Xu ^a   Yu, Xunwei ^a   Wang, Fei ^a   Huang, Alex Q ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

DC microgrid; power electronic transformer; smart grid; solid state transformer (SST)

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

ADVANCED CONTROL SYSTEMS; DC MICRO-GRID; HIGH-PERFORMANCE OPERATION; POWER ELECTRONIC TRANSFORMER; SMART GRID; SMART GRID ARCHITECTURES; SOLID STATE TRANSFORMERS (SST); SYSTEM DESIGN AND PERFORMANCE;

SMART POWER GRIDS;

EID: 84897475407     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2013.2293471     Document Type: Article

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