Conformation of multilevel current source converter topologies using the duality principle

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2260-2267

  Bai, ZhiHong ^a   Zhang, ZhongChao ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Current source converter (CSC); Duality; Multilevel; Topology; Voltage source converter (VSC)

Indexed keywords

POWER CONVERTERS; POWER QUALITY;

AC SIDES; ANALYTICAL RESULTS; CIRCUIT CELLS; CURRENT SOURCE CONVERTER (CSC); CURRENT SOURCE CONVERTERS; DUAL STRUCTURES; DUALITY; DUALITY PRINCIPLES; MULTILEVEL; VOLTAGE SOURCE CONVERTER (VSC); VOLTAGE SOURCE CONVERTERS;

TOPOLOGY;

EID: 57349138332     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2008.2001893     Document Type: Article

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