Wide-band gap devices in PV systems - Opportunities and challenges

2014 International Power Electronics Conference, IPEC-Hiroshima - ECCE Asia 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1912-1919

  Sintamarean, C ^a   Eni, E ^a   Blaabjerg, F ^a   Teodorescu, R ^a   Wang, H ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

cost analyse; efficiency measurement; high switching frequency operation; thermal loading

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; ENERGY GAP; MOSFET DEVICES; POWER ELECTRONICS; SILICON; SILICON CARBIDE; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION); THERMAL LOAD;

COMPARISON STUDY; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; HIGH SWITCHING FREQUENCIES; NEUTRAL POINT CLAMPED; POWER DENSITIES; SIMPLE STRUCTURES; SWITCHING LOSS; THERMAL LOADINGS;

COST REDUCTION;

EID: 84906672758     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPEC.2014.6869846     Document Type: Conference Paper

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