Natural balance of multicell converters: The two-cell case

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1649-1657

  Wilkinson, Richardt H ^a   Meynard, Thierry A ^b   Mouton, Hendrik du Toit ^c  

^a CAPE PENINSULA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^c STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT); P cells

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; SWITCHING FUNCTIONS; TOPOLOGY;

LOAD IMPEDANCE; MULTICELL CONVERTERS; NATURAL BALANCING THEORY; P-CELLS; SWITCHING FREQUENCY;

POWER CONVERTERS;

EID: 37849189469     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2006.882958     Document Type: Article

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