Multilevel inverters: A survey of topologies, controls, and applications

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 724-738

  Rodríguez, José ^a,b   Lai, Jih Sheng ^a,c   Peng, Fang Zheng ^a,d  

^a IEEE

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Chile)

^c VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Michigan State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Medium voltage drives; Multilevel converter; Multilevel inverter; Power converters

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; OPTICAL SENSORS; POWER CONTROL; POWER CONVERTERS; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; VECTOR QUANTIZATION; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

ASYMMETRIC HYBRID CELLS; CAPACITOR CLAMPED MULTICELL; DIODE CLAMPED INVERTER; MEDIUM VOLTAGE DRIVES; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; MULTILEVEL INVERTERS; MULTILEVEL SELECTIVE HARMONIC ELIMINATION; MULTILEVEL SINUSOIDAL PULSEWIDTH MODULATION; SOFT SWITCHED INVERTERS; SPACE VECTOR MODULATION;

INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS;

EID: 0036686037     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2002.801052     Document Type: Article

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