A six-phase multilevel inverter for MEMS electrostatic induction micromotors

PESC Record - IEEE Annual Power Electronics Specialists Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages 695-700

  Neugebauer, Timothy C ^a   Perreault, David J ^a   Lang, Jeffrey H ^a   Livermore, Carol ^a   Umans, Stephen D ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; ELECTRODES; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; POWER ELECTRONICS;

MICROMOTORS; SIX-PHASE MULTILEVEL INVERTER;

ELECTRIC INVERTERS;

EID: 0036449461     PISSN: 02759306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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