Capacitor voltage balancing schemes in flying capacitor multilevel inverters

PESC Record - IEEE Annual Power Electronics Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 2367-2372

  Shukla, Anshuman ^a,b   Ghosh, Arindam ^a,c   Joshi, Avinash ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

^c QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

FCMLI; Flying capacitor; Multilevel inverter

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; CAPACITORS; COMPARATORS (OPTICAL); DIELECTRIC DEVICES; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ENERGY STORAGE; MODULATION; POWER CONVERTERS; POWER ELECTRONICS;

CAPACITOR VOLTAGE BALANCING; CAPACITOR VOLTAGES; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; FCMLI; FLYING CAPACITOR; FLYING CAPACITOR MULTILEVEL INVERTER; FLYING-CAPACITOR MULTILEVEL INVERTERS; IMPROVED PERFORMANCE; MULTILEVEL INVERTER; SAMPLING FREQUENCIES; SINUSOIDAL PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; STATE DETECTION; THREE-LEVEL;

ELECTRIC EQUIPMENT;

EID: 48349104161     PISSN: 02759306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PESC.2007.4342381     Document Type: Conference Paper

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