A five-level symmetrically defined selective harmonic elimination PWM strategy: Analysis and experimental validation

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 19-26

  Agelidis, Vassilios G ^a   Balouktsis, Anastasios I ^b   Dahidah, Mohamed S A ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b Tech and Edu Inst of Serres   (Greece)

^c MULTIMEDIA UNIVERSITY   (Malaysia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM MALAYSIA CAMPUS   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Multilevel Converter; Optimization; Phase shifted sinusoidal pulsewidth modulation (PS PWM); Pulsewidth modulation (PWM); Selective harmonic elimination (SHE)

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; OPTIMIZATION; PHASE SHIFT; SWITCHING FREQUENCY; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; PHASE-SHIFTED SINUSOIDAL PULSEWIDTH MODULATION (PS-PWM); SELECTIVE HARMONIC ELIMINATION (SHE); SWITCHING TRANSITIONS;

PULSE WIDTH MODULATION;

EID: 38349132052     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2007.911770     Document Type: Article

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