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Research on Power Electronics and Photovoltaics

Journal Articles

Katherine A. Kim, Chenyang Xu, Lei Jin, and Philip T. Krein. Dynamic photovoltaic model incorporating capacitive and reverse-bias characteristics. IEEE J. Photovoltaics, 3(4):134-1341, October 2013.
Pradeep S. Shenoy, Katherine A. Kim, Brian B. Johnson, and Philip T. Krein. Differential power processing for increased energy production and reliability of photovoltaic systems. IEEE Trans. Power Electron. 28(6):2968-2979, June 2013.

Conference Proceedings

Katherine A. Kim and Philip T. Krein. Hot spotting and second breakdown effects on reverse I-V characteristics for mono-crystalline Si photovoltaics. Proc. IEEE Energy Conversion Congr. Expo., pages 1007-1014, September 2013.
Katherine A. Kim and Philip T. Krein. Photovoltaic hot spot analysis for cells with various reverse-bias characteristics through electrical and thermal simulation. Proc. IEEE Workshop Control Modeling Power Electron., pages 1-8, June 2013.
Katherine A. Kim, Philip T. Krein, Gab-Su Seo, and Bo-Hyung Cho. Photovoltaic ac parameter characterization for dynamic partial shading and hot spot detection. Proc. IEEE Applied Power Electron. Conf., pages 109-115, March 2013.
Shibin Qin, Katherine A. Kim, and Robert C. N. Pilawa-Podgurski. Laboratory emulation of a photovoltaic module for controllable insolation and realistic dynamic performance. Proc. IEEE Power Energy Conf. Illinois, pages 23-29, Feb. 2013.
Katherine A. Kim, Pradeep S. Shenoy, and Philip T. Krein. Photovoltaic differential power converter trade-offs as a consequence of panel variation. Proc. IEEE Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electron., June 2012.
Pradeep S. Shenoy, Katherine A. Kim, and Philip T. Krein. Comparative analysis of differential power conversion architectures and controls for solar photovoltaics. Proc. IEEE Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electron., June 2012.
Pradeep S. Shenoy, Katherine A. Kim, Philip T. Krein, and Patrick L. Chapman. Differential power processing for efficiency and performance leaps in utility-scale photovoltaics. Proc. IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conf., pages 1357-1361, June 2012.
Katherine A. Kim, Sutchaya Lertburapa, Chenyang Xu, and Philip T. Krein. Efficiency and cost trade-offs for designing module integrated converter photovoltaic systems. Proc. IEEE Power Energy Conf. Illinois, February 2012.
Katherine A. Kim, Ran M. Li, and Philip T. Krein. Voltage-offset resistive control for dc-dc converters in photovoltaic applications. Proc. IEEE Applied Power Electron. Conf., pages 2045-2052, February 2012.
Katherine A. Kim, Philip T. Krein, Jay J. Lee, Hyunsu Bae, and Bo-Hyung Cho. Irradiance and temperature transient sensitivity analysis for photovoltaic control. Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Power Electron., pages 393-400, June 2011.
Ali M. Bazzi, Katherine A. Kim, Brian B. Johnson, Philip T. Krein, and Alejandro Domínguez-García. Fault impacts on solar power unit reliability. Proc. IEEE Applied Power Electron. Conf., pages 1223-1231, March 2011.
Katherine A. Kim and Philip T. Krein. Photovoltaic converter module configurations for maximum power point operation. Proc. IEEE Power Energy Conf. Illinois, pages 77-82, February 2010.

Thesis

Katherine A. Kim Voltage-offset resistive control for photovoltaics. Master's thesis. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, December 2011.