The neutral point clamped resonant DC link converter - A new three level soft switched topology

2005 IEEE International Conference on Electric Machines and Drives

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1744-1751

  Wallace, Ian ^a   Bendre, Ashish ^b   Venkataramanan, Giri ^c  

^a EATON CORPORATION   (United States)

^b DRS Sensors and Targeting Systems Inc   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Component; multi level; Inverters; Neutral point clamped; Resonant dc link; Sigma delta modulator

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; HETEROJUNCTION BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; INDUCTANCE; RESONANCE; THYRISTORS; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

INTEGRATED GATE COMMUTATED THYRISTOR (IGCT); NEUTRAL POINT CLAMPED; RESONANT DC LINKS; SIGMA DELTA MODULATORS;

ELECTRIC CONVERTERS;

EID: 33749042409     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iemdc.2005.195956     Document Type: Conference Paper

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