Switching loss analysis of modulation methods used in neutral point clamped converters

2009 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2565-2571

  Andler, Daniel ^b   Kour, Samir ^a   Perez, Marcelo ^b   Rodríguez, José ^b   Wu, Bin ^a  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Chile)

Author keywords

Efficiency; Multilevel inverters; Neutral point clamped inverter; Pulse width modulation; Switching losses

Indexed keywords

MULTILEVEL INVERTER; NEUTRAL POINT CLAMPED INVERTER; NEUTRAL POINT CLAMPED INVERTERS; SWITCHING LOSS; SWITCHING LOSSES;

ENERGY CONVERSION; ESTIMATION; MODULATION; OPTICAL LOSSES; POWER CONVERTERS; POWER ELECTRONICS; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; TOPOLOGY;

SWITCHING;

EID: 72449174715     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ECCE.2009.5316040     Document Type: Conference Paper

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