A 50kW high power density paralleled-five-level PV converter based on SiC T-type MOSFET modules

ECCE 2016 - IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages

  Shi, Yanjun ^a   Shi, Yuxiang ^a   Wang, Lu ^a   Xie, Ren ^a   Li, Hui ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

multilevel inverter; power density; PV inverter; Wide bandgap power device

Indexed keywords

DAMAGE DETECTION; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ENERGY CONVERSION; POWER MOSFET; SWITCHING FREQUENCY; TOPOLOGY;

DIGITAL CONTROLLERS; HIGH POWER DENSITY; MAGNETIC COMPONENTS; MULTILEVEL INVERTER; POWER DENSITIES; POWER DEVICES; PV INVERTER; SHORT-CIRCUIT PROTECTION;

SILICON CARBIDE;

EID: 85015452602     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ECCE.2016.7854648     Document Type: Conference Paper

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