Zero-voltage switching for three-level capacitor clamping inverter

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 771-781

  Yuan, Xiaoming ^a,b   Barbi, Ivo ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (Brazil)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOFT-SWITCHING; ZERO-CURRENT SWITCHING (ZCS); ZERO-VOLTAGE SWITCHING (ZVS);

ACTIVE FILTERS; CAPACITORS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

ELECTRIC INVERTERS;

EID: 0033153986     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/63.774218     Document Type: Article

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