Active neutral-point-clamped multilevel converters

PESC Record - IEEE Annual Power Electronics Specialists Conference

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 2296-2301

  Barbosa, Peter ^a   Steimer, Peter ^a   Steinke, Jorgen ^a   Meysenc, Luc ^a   Winkelnkemper, Manfred ^a   Celanovic, Nikola ^a  

^a ABB SWITZERLAND LTD   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOATING CAPACITORS; NEUTRAL-POINT-CLAMPED (NPC); REDUNDANT SWITCHING STATES;

CAPACITORS; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; SWITCHING THEORY;

ACTIVE FILTERS;

EID: 33847727327     PISSN: 02759306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PESC.2005.1581952     Document Type: Conference Paper

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