Natural balance of multicell converters

PESC Record - IEEE Annual Power Electronics Specialists Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages 1307-1312

  Wilkinson, R H ^a   Mouton, H Du T ^a   Meynard, T A ^b  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SWITCHING; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

MULTICELL CONVERTERS;

ELECTRIC CONVERTERS;

EID: 0043158871     PISSN: 02759306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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