Simple direct capacitor voltage balancing of a flying capacitor converter

2005 European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Clos, G ^a   Schindele, L ^a   Franke, T ^a   Gartner S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Modulation strategy; Multilevel converters

Indexed keywords

CAPACITORS; ELECTRIC CURRENT CONTROL; ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; SWITCHING SYSTEMS; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

FLYING CAPACITOR; MODULATION STRATEGY; MULTILEVEL CONVERTERS; VOLTAGE BALANCING;

POWER CONVERTERS;

EID: 33947690117     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/epe.2005.219499     Document Type: Conference Paper

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