A new stacked NPC converter: 3L-topology and control

2007 European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications, EPE

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Floricau, Dan ^a   Gateau, Guillaume ^b   Dumitrescu, Mariana ^c   Teodorescu, Remus ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY POLITEHNICA OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^c DUNAREA DE JOS UNIVERSITY OF GALATI   (Romania)

^d AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Modulation strategy; Multilevel converters; Pulse width modulation (PWM); Voltage source converter (VSC); Voltage source inverter (VSI)

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); ELECTRIC INVERTERS; POWER ELECTRONICS; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

MODULATION STRATEGY; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; NEUTRAL POINT CLAMPED; OPERATING CONDITION; THREE LEVEL (3L); VOLTAGE SOURCE CONVERTER (VSC); VOLTAGE SOURCE CONVERTERS; VOLTAGE SOURCE INVERTER (VSI);

TOPOLOGY;

EID: 51049109616     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EPE.2007.4417285     Document Type: Conference Paper

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