New multilevel converter topology with minimum number of gate driver circuits

SPEEDAM 2008 - International Symposium on Power Electronics, Electrical Drives, Automation and Motion

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 792-797

  Babaei, Ebrahim ^a   Hosseini, Seyed Hossein ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TABRIZ   (Iran)

Author keywords

Bi directional switch; Full bridge topology; Multilevel converter; Multilevel inverter

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS; COST REDUCTION; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; TOPOLOGY;

ANALYSIS RESULTS; BI-DIRECTIONAL SWITCH; CASCADED MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; DC VOLTAGES; ELECTRICAL DRIVES; FULL-BRIDGE TOPOLOGY; GATE DRIVER CIRCUITS; INSULATED-GATE; INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM; MULTI-LEVEL CONVERTERS; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; MULTILEVEL INVERTER; VOLTAGE STANDING;

POWER ELECTRONICS;

EID: 51849099053     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SPEEDHAM.2008.4581263     Document Type: Conference Paper

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