A three-level MOSFET inverter for low-power drives

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 669-674

  Welchko, Brian A ^a   De Rossiter Correa, Mauricio Beltrao ^b   Lipo, Thomas A ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARAÍBA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Adjustable speed drives; Bootstrap; Charge pump; Inverters; Multilevel systems; Pulsewidth modulation

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; MOSFET DEVICES; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES;

ADJUSTABLE SPEED DRIVES; BOOTSTRAP CHARGE PUMP; ISOLATED GATE DRIVE POWER SUPPLIES; MULTILEVEL SYSTEMS; THREE LEVEL NEUTRAL POINT CLAMPED INVERTER; TWO LEVEL PULSEWIDTH MODULATION METHOD;

ELECTRIC INVERTERS;

EID: 2942633353     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2004.825337     Document Type: Article

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