A switching scheme for multilevel converters with non-equal DC sources

2007 39th North American Power Symposium, NAPS

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 308-313

  Rangarajan, Rajmohan ^a   Villaseca, F Eugenio ^a  

^a Cleveland State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Cascaded H bridge converters; Harmonics; Switching scheme to render equal step voltage staircase; Unequal source voltage levels

Indexed keywords

CASCADED H-BRIDGE; CASCADED H-BRIDGE CONVERTERS; DC SOURCES; HARMONICS; MULTI-LEVEL CONVERTERS; SWITCHING SCHEME TO RENDER EQUAL STEP-VOLTAGE STAIRCASE; UNEQUAL SOURCE VOLTAGE LEVELS; VOLTAGE LEVELS; VOLTAGE SOURCES; WAVE FORMS;

EID: 50249113303     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NAPS.2007.4402327     Document Type: Conference Paper

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