A new switched-capacitor boost-multilevel inverter using partial charging

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1145-1149

  Chan, Marco S W ^a   Chau, K T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Boost converter; Multilevel inverter; Partial charging; Switched capacitor

Indexed keywords

DC-DC CONVERTERS;

BOOST CONVERTER; MULTILEVEL INVERTER; MULTIPLE VOLTAGE; OUTPUT VOLTAGES; SWITCHED CAPACITOR; TOTAL HARMONIC DISTORTION (THD); VOLTAGE BOOST;

ELECTRIC INVERTERS;

EID: 64749096557     PISSN: 15497747     EISSN: 15583791     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSII.2007.905352     Document Type: Article

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