Compact analytical solutions for determining the spectral characteristics of multicarrier-based multilevel PWM

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1577-1585

  Lau, W H ^a   Zhou, Bin ^a   Chung, Henry S H ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; INTEGRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POWER ELECTRONICS; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

DOUBLE FOURIER SERIES; MULTILEVEL PULSEWIDTH MODULATION INVERTER; SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS;

ELECTRIC INVERTERS;

EID: 4344651090     PISSN: 10577122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2004.832790     Document Type: Article

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