Synthesis of multilevel converters based on single-and/or three-phase converter building blocks

IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference)

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1780-1786

  Wen, Jun ^a   Smedley, Keyue ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRIDGES; CHARGING (BATTERIES); ELECTRIC DRIVES; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS; MODULAR CONSTRUCTION; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE;

ANNUAL CONFERENCE; BUILDING BLOCKS; CASCADED H-BRIDGE; CASCADED H-BRIDGE CONVERTER; COMPONENT COUNT; HIGH-POWER APPLICATIONS; MODULAR STRUCTURES; MOTOR DRIVE APPLICATIONS; MULTI-LEVEL CONVERTERS; PHASE CONVERTERS; THREE-PHASE CONVERTERS; VAR COMPENSATION; VOLTAGE LEVELS;

ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY;

EID: 44449170843     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IECON.2007.4459918     Document Type: Conference Paper

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