A new modulation method to reduce common-mode voltages in multilevel inverters

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 834-839

  Rodríguez, José ^a   Pontt, Jorge ^a   Correa, Pablo ^a   Cortés, Patricio ^a   Silva, César ^a  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ELECTRIC COMMUTATION; ELECTRIC DISTORTION; ELECTRIC LOADS; POWER CONVERTERS; POWER SUPPLY CIRCUITS; SWITCHING CIRCUITS; VECTORS; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

COMMON MODE VOLTAGE; MODULATION ALGORITHM; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; MULTILEVEL INVERTERS; SPACE VECTOR CONTROL; SWITCHING FREQUENCY;

ELECTRIC INVERTERS;

EID: 4043104033     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2004.831735     Document Type: Article

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