Self-balancing of the clamping-capacitor-voltages in the multilevel capacitor-clamping-inverter under sub-harmonic PWM modulation

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 256-263

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

^a IEEE   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Capacitor clamping inverter; Clamping capacitor voltage; Self balancing; Sub harmonic PWM modulation

Indexed keywords

MULTILEVEL INVERTERS; SUB HARMONIC MODULATION;

CAPACITORS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION;

ELECTRIC INVERTERS;

EID: 0035279618     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/63.911150     Document Type: Article

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