Harmonics optimization of the voltage balancing control for multilevel converter/inverter systems

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 211-217

  Pan, Zhiguo ^a,b   Peng, Fang Z ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b Michigan State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Multilevel converter; Total harmonic distortion (THD); Voltage balancing control

Indexed keywords

MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; TOTAL HARMONIC DISTORTION (THD); VOLTAGE BALANCING CONTROL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HARMONIC GENERATION; POWER CONVERTERS; REDUNDANCY; SWITCHING FREQUENCY; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

HARMONIC DISTORTION;

EID: 33846132019     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2005.861158     Document Type: Article

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