Single stage high gain micro-inverter with tapped inductor and charge pump

Traditional two-stage micro-inverter is usually comprised of a high gain step-up DC-DC converter under maximum power point tracking control and a cascaded full bridge inverter. Single stage micro-inverter can achieve the functions above in one power stage, thus it has the advantages of simpler circuit and less components. Nevertheless, single stage topology has some challenges on high gain voltage step-up and power decoupling. This paper proposed a single stage high gain micro-inverter topology with tapped inductor and charge pump. Tapped inductor and charge pump are employed to attain high gain voltage step-up. A single power stage is realized by Boost converter sharing the switches with full bridge inverter. And the high voltage DC bus results in less power decoupling capacitance. The simulated and experimental results have proved that the proposed topology has the merits of high gain voltage step-up, less power decoupling capacitance, high quality sinusoidal output and good conversion efficiency.