Simple passive lossless snubber for high-power multilevel inverters

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 727-735

  He, Xiangning ^a   Chen, Alian ^a   Wu, Hongyang ^b   Deng, Yan ^a   Zhao, Rongxiang ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Delta Power Electronics Center   (China)

Author keywords

Inverters; Lossless circuits; Multilevel systems; Snubbers

Indexed keywords

BUILT-IN SELF TEST; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; PHASE CONTROL; POWER ELECTRONICS;

HIGH-POWER MULTILEVEL INVERTERS; PASSIVE LOSSLESS SNUBBER CIRCUIT;

PASSIVE NETWORKS;

EID: 33744797682     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2006.874422     Document Type: Article

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