Level-shifted PWM for cascaded multilevel inverters with even power distribution

PESC Record - IEEE Annual Power Electronics Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 2373-2378

  Angulo, Mauricio ^a   Lezana, Pablo ^a   Kouro, Samir ^a   Rodríguez, José ^a   Wu, Bin ^b  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Chile)

^b RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COUNTING CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION; MODULATION; POWER ELECTRONICS; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION;

CASCADED H-BRIDGE; CASCADED INVERTERS; CASCADED MULTILEVEL INVERTERS; CONVERTER CELLS; INPUT CURRENTS; MODULATION METHODS; MULTI CARRIERS; MULTI-LEVEL INVERTERS; OUTPUT VOLTAGES; PHASE-SHIFTED; POWER CELLS; POWER DISTRIBUTIONS;

PULSE MODULATION;

EID: 48349139111     PISSN: 02759306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PESC.2007.4342382     Document Type: Conference Paper

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