An efficient multilevel-synthesis approach and its application to a 27-level inverter

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1600-1606

  Kang, Feel Soon ^a   Park, Sung Jun ^b   Lee, Man Hyung ^c   Kim, Cheul U ^c  

^a Hanbat National University   (South Korea)

^b Chonnam National University   (South Korea)

^c Pusan National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Cascaded transformer; Multilevel inverter; Total harmonic distortion (THD)

Indexed keywords

CAPACITORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIODES; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS; HARMONIC DISTORTION; SWITCHES;

CAPACITOR VOLTAGE; CASCADED TRANSFORMER; MULTILEVEL INVERTER;

ELECTRIC INVERTERS;

EID: 29244472044     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2005.858715     Document Type: Article

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