A unique fault-tolerant design for flying capacitor multilevel inverter

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 979-987

  Kou, Xiaomin ^a   Corzine, Keith A ^a   Familiant, Yakov L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PLATTEVILLE   (United States)

^b IEEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC FAULT CURRENTS; ELECTRIC NETWORK SYNTHESIS; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; INSULATED GATE BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; MODULATION; POWER CONVERTERS; POWER ELECTRONICS; SEMICONDUCTOR SWITCHES; THYRISTORS;

FAULT DIAGNOSING METHODS; FAULT TOLERANT DESIGN; FLYING CAPACITOR; MULTILEVEL INVERTERS; POWER CONVERTING QUALITY; POWER SEMICONDUCTORS; SINGLE SWITCH FAULT;

ELECTRIC INVERTERS;

EID: 3843100453     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2004.830037     Document Type: Article

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