A carrier-based PWM scheme for neutral-point voltage balancing in three-level inverters

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

Volumn 3, Issue , 2004, Pages 1675-1681

  Tallam, Rangarajan M ^a   Naik, Rajendra ^a   Nondahl, Thomas A ^a  

^a ROCKWELL AUTOMATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Carrier based PWM; ; Neutral point voltage balancing; Three level inverter

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CAPACITORS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FREQUENCIES; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; SWITCHING; VOLTAGE CONTROL; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

CARRIER-BASED PWM; MODULATION INDICES; NEUTRAL-POINT VOLTAGE BALANCING; THREE-LEVEL INVERTERS;

ELECTRIC INVERTERS;

EID: 2342650147     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2005.858283     Document Type: Conference Paper

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