Three-level switching cell for low voltage/high-current DC-DC converters

Conference Proceedings - IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition - APEC

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages 121-125

  Zhu, Yan ^a   Lehman, Brad ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC BATTERIES; ELECTRIC SURGES; SWITCHING SYSTEMS;

THREE LEVEL SWITCHING;

ELECTRIC CONVERTERS;

EID: 0037233213     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APEC.2003.1179202     Document Type: Conference Paper

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