Analysis of a novel four-level DC/DC boost converter

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1342-1350

  Corzine, Keith A ^a,b  

^a University of Wisconsin Milwaukee   (United States)

^b MOTOROLA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC DRIVES; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CAPACITOR VOLTAGE BALANCING; FOUR-LEVEL DIRECT CURRENT/DIRECT CURRENT BOOST CONVERTERS; NONLINEAR AVERAGE-VALUE MODELS (NLAM);

POWER CONVERTERS;

EID: 0034269363     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/28.871283     Document Type: Article

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