Voltage-balancing circuit based on a resonant switched-capacitor converter for multilevel inverters

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1768-1776

  Sano, Kenichiro ^a   Fujita, Hideaki ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

DC link voltage; Multilevel inverters; Phase shift control; Resonant switched capacitor converters (RSCC)

Indexed keywords

CAPACITORS; DIELECTRIC DEVICES; ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; ELECTRIC EQUIPMENT; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; PHASE SHIFT;

BUCK-BOOST CONVERTERS; DC VOLTAGES; DC-LINK VOLTAGE; MULTILEVEL INVERTERS; NEW PHASE; PHASE-SHIFT CONTROL; RESONANT CAPACITORS; RESONANT INDUCTORS; RESONANT SWITCHED-CAPACITOR CONVERTERS (RSCC);

CAPACITANCE;

EID: 57049184644     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2008.2006291     Document Type: Article

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