A study on GaN based converters for the application of power conditioning of photovoltaic systems

Abstract

The increase in solar system installation worldwide has forced engineers to improve the overall efficiency of the system. The system consists of a power conditioning unit mostly which compromises of converters and filters in addition to panels themselves. The paper presents the simulations and discussions upon the improvement of hard switching using GaN transistors with various loads and frequencies at 100v, ignoring the conduction losses.