A soft-switching inverter topology (the Class Φ) is presented which draws dc source current through a transmission line or a lumped-network approximation of a distributed line. By aligning the inverter switching frequency just below the line’s λ/4-wave resonance, the Class Φ topology enforces oddand even-harmonic content in its drain voltage and input current, respectively. The symmetrizing act...

In order to solve the problems caused by the susceptibility to changing weather conditions and the complex load conditions of photovoltaic (PV) systems, and the fact a single target inverter control strategy cannot effectively mitigate large voltage fluctuations at point of common coupling (PCC), an integrated reactive power control strategy for PV inverters is proposed. According to the weathe...

VHDL-AMS (IEEE 1076.1-1999), an extension to the VHDL, is considered to be a unified language for digital analog, mixed-signal modeling [1],[2]. Although traditionally AMS language is commonly used for behavioral modeling, in this paper special emphasis is given to modeling of mosfet based devices at switch level. We have analyzed VHDL-AMS for switch level modeling on basis of accuracy and resp...

A multilevel inverter is a power electronic device made to synthesize a desired AC voltage from several levels of DC voltages. Some industrial drives require medium voltage and megawatt power level. For a medium voltage grid, it is troublesome to connect only one power semiconductor switch directly. A multilevel power converter structure has been introduced as an alternative in high power and m...

This paper introduces a new dc–dc converter suitable for operation at very high frequencies (VHF) under on–off control. The converter power stage is based on a resonant inverter (the Φ2 inverter) providing low switch voltage stress and fast settling time compared to other resonant topologies. A new multistage resonant gate driver suited for driving large, high-voltage RF MOSFET at VHF frequenci...

Switching devices based on wide bandgap materials such as silicon carbide (SiC) offer a significant performance improvement on the switch level (specific on resistance, etc.) compared with Si devices. Well-known examples are SiC diodes employed, for example, in inverter drives with high switching frequencies. In this paper, the impact on the system-level performance, i.e., efficiency, power den...

A simple and reliable inverter is a prerequisite for realizing an efficient active power filter. This paper presents a reduced switch count (RSC) based asymmetrical switched dc sources inverterfor a threephase three-wire (3P3W)shunt active power filter (SAPF). The performance of considered RSCtopology is studied on seven-level asymmetrical configuration with simple level-shifted pulsewidth modu...