Synthesis of medium voltage dc-to-dc converters from low-voltage, high-frequency PWM switching converters

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1619-1635

  Vorpérian, Vatché ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dc circuit breaker; Feedback control; High frequency; Medium voltage; Neptune power; PWM conversion; Reduced average model; Reduced real time model; Redundancy; Stacking

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CIRCUIT BREAKERS; ELECTRIC SWITCHES; FEEDBACK CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION;

DC-TO-DC CONVERTERS; REDUCED AVERAGE MODEL; REDUCED REAL-TIME MODEL;

ELECTRIC CONVERTERS;

EID: 34548741327     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2007.904170     Document Type: Article

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