Multilevel converters - A new breed of power converters

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 509-517

  Lai, Jih Sheng ^a,b   Peng, Fang Zheng ^a,b  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b University of Tennessee   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITORS; DIODES; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC SWITCHES; VOLTAGE CONTROL; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

CAPACITOR VOLTAGE SYNTHESIS; CLAMPING DIODES; MULTILEVEL CONVERTERS; VOLTAGE CLAMPING; VOLTAGE SOURCES; VOLTAGE UNBALANCE;

POWER CONVERTERS;

EID: 0030149153     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/28.502161     Document Type: Article

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