A simple voltage balancing scheme for m-level diode-clamped multilevel converters based on a generalized current flow model

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2248-2259

  Khajehoddin, S Ali ^a   Bakhshai, Alireza ^a   Jain, Praveen K ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Diode clamped; Modeling space vector modulation (SVM); Multilevel converter; Voltage balancing

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; CAPACITORS; COSTS; DIELECTRIC DEVICES; DIODES; ELECTRIC EQUIPMENT; MODULATION; PAPER; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; VECTORS;

A STABILITIES; CONVERTER PERFORMANCES; CURRENT FLOWS; DC LINKS; MODELING APPROACHES; MODELING SPACE VECTOR MODULATION (SVM); MODULATION SCHEMES; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; MULTILEVEL CONVERTERS; OUTPUT CURRENTS; SIMULATION RESULTS; SPACE-VECTOR MODULATIONS; STABILITY MARGINS; SWITCHING STRATEGIES; VOLTAGE BALANCING; VOLTAGE SHARING;

COST FUNCTIONS;

EID: 57349157011     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2008.2001892     Document Type: Article

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