Natural doubling of the apparent switching frequency using three-level ANPC converter

Przeglad Elektrotechniczny

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 151-155

  Floricau, Dan ^a   Floricau, Elena ^a   Dumitrescu, Mariana ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY POLITEHNICA OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^b DUNAREA DE JOS UNIVERSITY OF GALATI   (Romania)

Author keywords

ANPC converter; Multilevel converters; Pulse width modulation; Voltage source converter

Indexed keywords

EID: 60149083108     PISSN: 00332097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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