Carrier-based pulse width modulation for three-level inverters: Neutral point potential and output voltage distortion

Conference Proceedings - IPEMC 2006: CES/IEEE 5th International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2007, Pages 667-673

  Kim, Jang Hwan ^a   Sul, Seung Ki ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Carrier based PWM; Neutral point potential; Neutral point clamped voltage source inverter; Output voltage distortion

Indexed keywords

CIVIL AVIATION; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COUNTING CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC DISTORTION; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; MODULATION; MOTION CONTROL; MOTION PLANNING; PULSE MODULATION; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION;

BALANCE (WEIGHTING); CARRIER (CO); CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS; EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS; INTERNATIONAL (CO); NEUTRAL POINT POTENTIAL; OUTPUT VOLTAGES; PULSE WIDTH (PW); THREE-LEVEL INVERTERS; VOLTAGE ERRORS; VOLTAGE SOURCE INVERTER (VSI);

POWER ELECTRONICS;

EID: 45149124562     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPEMC.2006.297110     Document Type: Conference Paper

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