Multi-level converters: A real solution to high voltage drives?

IEE Colloquium (Digest)

Volumn , Issue 91, 1997, Pages

  Newton, C ^a   Sumner, M ^a   Alexander, T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b Heenan Drives Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; BRIDGE CIRCUITS; CAPACITORS; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; VARIABLE SPEED DRIVES;

DIODE CLAMPED CIRCUITS (DCC); FLYING CAPACITOR CIRCUITS (FCC); INSULATED GATE BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS (IGBT); ISOLATED H BRIDGE CIRCUITS (IHC); MULTI LEVEL CONVERTERS;

POWER CONVERTERS;

EID: 0031131097     PISSN: 09633308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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