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Description This reference design provides an overview on how to implement a bidirectional three-level, three-phase, SiC-based active front end (AFE) inverter and power
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To decrease the complexity and increase the efficiency of wireless power transfer (WPT) systems, this paper proposes a novel self-excited invert rectification method for the
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