Real field mission profile oriented design of a SiC-Based PV-inverter application

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 4082-4089

  Sintamarean, Nicolae Cristian ^a   Blaabjerg, Frede ^a   Wang, Huai ^a   Yang, Yongheng ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Design tool; Mission profile; Photovoltaic (PV) inverters; Silicon carbide (SiC) devices; Thermal loading

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; MOSFET DEVICES; POWER CONVERTERS; SILICON; SILICON CARBIDE; STRESS ANALYSIS; THERMAL LOAD;

DESIGN TOOL; MISSION PROFILE; PHOTOVOLTAIC; SILICON CARBIDES (SIC); THERMAL LOADINGS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 84913595833     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2014.2312545     Document Type: Article

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