A voltage balancing method and its stability boundary for five-level diode-clamped multilevel converters

PESC Record - IEEE Annual Power Electronics Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 2204-2208

  Khajehoddin, S A ^a,b   Bakhshai, A ^a,b   Jain, P K ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; CAPACITORS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; DIELECTRIC DEVICES; ELECTRIC EQUIPMENT; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ENERGY STORAGE; MODULATION; PLANNING; POWER ELECTRONICS; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

5-LEVEL; A-STABILITY; CURRENT FLOWING; DC-LINK CAPACITORS; DC-LINK VOLTAGES; DIODE-CLAMPED; MODELING APPROACHES; MODULATION STRATEGIES; MULTI-LEVEL CONVERTERS; OUTPUT CURRENTS; SIMULATION RESULTS; SINUSOIDAL PULSE-WIDTH-MODULATION; SPACE-VECTOR MODULATION; STABILITY BOUNDARIES; SWITCHING STATES; SWITCHING STRATEGIES; VOLTAGE BALANCING;

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EID: 48349103825     PISSN: 02759306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PESC.2007.4342350     Document Type: Conference Paper

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