A four-level inverter based drive with a passive front end

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 285-294

  Sinha, Gautam ^a,b   Lipo, Thomas A ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

Diode clamped inverters; Four level inverters; High power drives; Multilevel converters

Indexed keywords

BRIDGE CIRCUITS; CAPACITORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIODES; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS; PASSIVE NETWORKS; PHASE MODULATION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

DIODE BRIDGE RECTIFIER; FOUR LEVEL INVERTER; HIGH POWER DRIVE;

ELECTRIC DRIVES;

EID: 0033743489     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/63.838101     Document Type: Article

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