Selected technical papers of relevance to photovoltaic power systems
Papers on PV cells
It is suggested that you read the Science survey article first.
Papers on inverters
It is suggested that you read the Cocconi paper first.
- Achille 2005
- Blaabjerg 2005
- Bonn
- Sandia workshop BOS needs 2002
- Carrasco 2005
- Cavalcanti 2005
- Cocconi 1983
- Enslin 1991
- Gonzalez Sandia slides
- Gonzalez and Bonn Sandia paper
- Herrmann 1993
- Ho 2005
- Hudson Xantrex workshop slides
- Martinez 2000
- Meza 2005
- Shimizu 2006
- Zhang 2001 PFC BCM spectrum calcs
Papers on other converters
Papers on modules and systems
It is suggested that you read the 2006 Walker paper first.
- Alonso Multilevel converters 2003
- Aynanar Multilevel converters 2006
- Calais PESC 2002
- Calais Multilevel 1998
- Calais String 2003
- Fukae parallel converters 2003
- Giri Modular converters 2006
- European (IEA) analysis of PV performance
- European (IEA) survey of performance
- Meinhardt modules 1999
- Merwe string 1998
- Shimizu string 2001
- Siri DC module 2001
- Walker DC string AUPEC 2003
- Walker string 2004
- Walker string PESC 2006
Papers on maximum power point tracking
It is suggested that you read the Femia paper first.
- Asiminoaei 2005
- Casadei 2005
- Enslin 1998
- Enslin 1997
- Femia 2005
- Chou 2004
- Esram 2006
- Alghuwainem 1997 (cool closed form solution for MPPT)
- Shmilovitz 2005
- Salmon 2005
- Tse 2002
- Veecharary 2002
Relevant standards and design issues
- ANSI 63.14 1992 dictionary
- ANSI C63.2 1994 EMI limits
- ANSI C63.4 2003 EMI limits
- Basso paper on standards Discusses IEEE 1547
- Mammano and Carsten on EMI
- FCC part 15 8-14-06 EMI limits
- Vishay app note on transients
- IEEE 1547-2003 Connecting renewable energy sources to the utility grid
- IEEE STD 62.45 Transient immunity for devices connected to the utility
- IEEE STD C62.41.2 More transient immunity
- Ginn - Sandia inverter testing
- The classic Powercon 11 paper by Jacobus on line transient protection