Overdistention operation of cascaded multilevel inverters

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 817-824

  Kou, Xiaomin ^a   Corzine, Keith A ^b   Wielebski, Mike W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PLATTEVILLE   (United States)

^b MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c ROCKWELL AUTOMATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Multilevel converter; Multilevel inverter; Pulsewidth modulation; Space vector

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC LOSSES; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR; ELECTROMAGNETIC COMPATIBILITY; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; SWITCHING SYSTEMS;

CASCADED MULTILEVEL INVERTER; POWER QUALITY; SWITCHING LOSS; VOLTAGE CAPABILITY;

POWER CONVERTERS;

EID: 33744525455     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2006.873654     Document Type: Article

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