Narrow pulse elimination PWM for multilevel digital audio power amplifiers using two cascaded H-bridges as a nine-level converter

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 425-434

  Antunes, Victor M E ^a   Pires, V Fernão ^a   Silva, J Fernando A ^b  

^a INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO DE SETÚBAL   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Narrow pulse elimination (NPE); Pulsewidth modulation (PWM); Total harmonic distortion (THD)

Indexed keywords

CASCADE CONNECTIONS; HARMONIC DISTORTION; MOSFET DEVICES; POWER CONVERTERS; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION;

DIGITAL AUDIO POWER AMPLIFIER; NARROW PULSE ELIMINATION; TOTAL HARMONIC DISTORTION;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 34047163451     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2006.889912     Document Type: Article

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