Modified phase-shifted PWM control for flying capacitor multilevel converters

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 178-185

  Feng, Chunmei ^a   Liang, Jun ^b   Agelidis, Vassilios G ^c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN   (United Kingdom)

^c MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Flying capacitor (FC) converter; Modified phase shifted pulsewidth modulation (PS PWM); Multilevel converter; Voltage balancing

Indexed keywords

FLYING CAPACITOR CONVERTER; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; PHASE-SHIFTED PULSEWIDTH MODULATION; VOLTAGE BALANCING;

CAPACITORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PHASE SHIFT; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; SWITCHING CIRCUITS;

ELECTRIC CONVERTERS;

EID: 33846931570     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2006.886600     Document Type: Article

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