The efficiency of three-level active NPC converter for different PWM strategies

2009 13th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications, EPE '09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Floricau, D ^a   Gateau, G ^b   Leredde, A ^b   Teodorescu, R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY POLITEHNICA OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^c AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

High voltage power converters; Modulation strategy; Multilevel converters; Voltage source converter (VSC); Voltage source inverters (VSI)

Indexed keywords

HIGH VOLTAGE POWER CONVERTERS; MODULATION STRATEGY; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; VOLTAGE SOURCE CONVERTERS; VOLTAGE SOURCE INVERTER;

COUNTING CIRCUITS; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; POWER CONVERTERS; PULSE MODULATION; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION;

POWER ELECTRONICS;

EID: 72949084422     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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