Soft-switched three-level capacitor clamping inverter with clamping voltage stabilization

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1165-1173

  Yuan, X ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITORS; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION;

MULTILEVEL INVERTER; SOFT SWITCHING;

ELECTRIC INVERTERS;

EID: 0034228689     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/28.855975     Document Type: Article

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