Performance characteristics of a cascaded two-level converter

IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 433-439

  Corzine, K A ^a   Sudhoff, S D ^b   Whitcomb, C A ^c  

^a University of Wisconsin Milwaukee   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITORS; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; PERFORMANCE; SEMICONDUCTOR SWITCHES; TRANSISTORS;

CASCADED CONVERTER; MACHINE VOLTAGES;

POWER CONVERTERS;

EID: 0033314746     PISSN: 08858969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/60.790893     Document Type: Article

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