An electron beam melting (EBM) system was fabricated to investigate its effectiveness in the refining of metallurgical grade silicon. The metallurgical refining of silicon is a promising process for reducing the production cost of silicon feedstock for solar cells. Especially, EBM is an...

A photovoltaic (PV) power conditioning system (PCS) must have high conversion efficiency and low cost. Generally, a PV PCS uses either a single string converter or a multilevel module integrated converter (MIC). Each of these approaches has both advantages and disadvantages. For a high...