A novel technique for control of Cascaded multilevel inverter for photovoltaic power supplies

2005 European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Naik, Raghuram L ^a   Udaya Kumar, R Y ^b  

^a BASAVESHWAR ENGINEERING COLLEGE   (India)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KARNATAKA   (India)

Author keywords

Cascaded H bridge; Multilevel inverter; Phase shifted sinusoidal PWM; Photovoltaic; Weighted THD

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HARMONIC DISTORTION; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; POWER CONVERTERS; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION;

CASCADED H-BRIDGE; MULTILEVEL INVERTER; PHASE-SHIFTED SINUSOIDAL PWM; WEIGHTED THD;

ELECTRIC INVERTERS;

EID: 33947629641     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/epe.2005.219237     Document Type: Conference Paper

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