Performance analysis of SiC MOSFET based 3-level ANPC grid-connected inverter with novel modulation scheme

2014 IEEE 15th Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics, COMPEL 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages

  Gurpinar, Emre ^a   De, Dipankar ^a   Castellazzi, Alberto ^a   Barater, Davide ^b   Buticchi, Giampaolo ^b   Franceschini, Giovanni ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Active Neutral Point Clamped Inverter; ANPC; Renewable energy; SiC MOSFET; Single phase inverters; Transformerless PV inverter

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS; HEAT SINKS; POWER CONTROL; POWER CONVERTERS; POWER ELECTRONICS; SILICON CARBIDE; SWITCHING; SWITCHING FREQUENCY;

ACTIVE NEUTRAL POINT CLAMPED; ANPC; PV INVERTER; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; SIC MOSFET; SINGLE-PHASE INVERTERS;

MOSFET DEVICES;

EID: 84906819091     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/COMPEL.2014.6877124     Document Type: Conference Paper

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