A generalized undeland snubber for flying capacitor multilevel inverter and converter

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1290-1296

  Kim, In Dong ^a   Nho, Eui Cheol ^a   Kim, Heung Geun ^b   Ko, Jong Sun ^c  

^a Pukyong National University   (South Korea)

^b Kyungpook National University   (South Korea)

^c Dankook University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Flying capacitor multilevel inverter and converter; Multilevel inverter and converter; RLD RCD snubber; Snubber circuit; Undeland snubber

Indexed keywords

CAPACITORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL;

MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; MULTILEVEL INVERTER; RCD SNUBBER; RLD SNUBBER; SNUBBER CIRCUIT; UNDELAND SNUBBER;

POWER CONVERTERS;

EID: 10044233934     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2004.837917     Document Type: Article

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