Critical review on various inverter topologies for PV system architectures

D Kolantla, S Mikkili, SR Pendem… - IET Renewable Power …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
To achieve clean and sustainable energy, the demand for renewable energy has been
increasing day‐by‐day. As it is known the conversion efficiency of PV cells is very less …

A review of WBG and Si devices hybrid applications

L Zhang, Z Zheng, X Lou - Chinese Journal of Electrical …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, next-generation power semiconductor devices, represented by silicon
carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN), have gradually emerged. Because wide-bandgap …

A megawatt-scale medium-voltage high-efficiency high power density “SiC+ Si” hybrid three-level ANPC inverter for aircraft hybrid-electric propulsion systems

D Zhang, J He, D Pan - IEEE Transactions on Industry …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A hybrid-electric propulsion system is an enabling technology to make the aircraft more fuel
saving, quieter, and lower carbide emission. In this article, a megawatt (MW) scale power …

Three levels are not enough: Scaling laws for multilevel converters in AC/DC applications

JA Anderson, G Zulauf, P Papamanolis… - … on Power Electronics, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Single-phase inverters and rectifiers in 230 Vrms applications, with a dc-side voltage of 400
V, achieve ultrahigh efficiency with a simple two-level topology. These single-phase designs …

New figure-of-merit combining semiconductor and multi-level converter properties

JA Anderson, G Zulauf, JW Kolar… - IEEE Open Journal of …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Figures-of-Merit (FOMs) are widely-used to compare power semiconductor materials and
devices and to motivate research and development of new technology nodes. These …

20-kW Zero-Voltage-Switching SiC-mosfet Grid Inverter With 300 kHz Switching Frequency

N He, M Chen, J Wu, N Zhu, D Xu - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Although SiC-mosfet has significant advantages on switching performance over traditional
Si-IGBT, the switching loss of SiC-mosfet devices at hard switching rises quickly with the …

Overview of transformerless photovoltaic grid-connected inverters

H Xiao - IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Transformerless grid-connected inverters (TLI) feature high efficiency, low cost, low volume,
and weight due to using neither line-frequency transformers nor high-frequency …

Evaluation of different Si/SiC hybrid three-level active NPC inverters for high power density

L Zhang, X Lou, C Li, F Wu, Y Gu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Compared with full-SiC mosfets converters, the hybrid utilization of Si/SiC converters is an
alternative approach to achieve the tradeoff between performance and cost. A systematic …

Power quality management of PV power plant with transformer integrated filtering method

Q Liu, Y Li, L Luo, Y Peng, Y Cao - IEEE Transactions on Power …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a new solution of power quality management for the photovoltaic (PV)
power plant with the transformer integrated filtering method. The innovation of the PV power …

Control and optimization of residential photovoltaic power generation system with high efficiency isolated bidirectional DC–DC converter

R Li, F Shi - IEEE access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Currently, residential photovoltaic power generation system is increasingly used worldwide.
In this paper, an optimized structure of residential photovoltaic (PV) power generation …