A precise and practical harmonic elimination method for multilevel inverters

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 857-865

  Wang, Jin ^a   Ahmadi, Damoun ^a  

^a The Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Equal area criteria; Modulation index; Multilevel inverters; Pulsewidth modulation (PWM); Total harmonic distortion (THD)

Indexed keywords

CASCADE MULTILEVEL INVERTER; FOURIER-SERIES EXPANSION; HARMONIC ELIMINATION; HARMONIC INJECTION; HIGH-ORDER; HIGH-VOLTAGES; MODULATION INDEXES; MULTI-VARIABLE POLYNOMIALS; MULTILEVEL INVERTER; SELECTIVE HARMONIC ELIMINATION; SWITCHING ANGLES; TOTAL HARMONIC DISTORTIONS; VOLTAGE LEVELS; VOLTAGE WAVEFORMS; WAVE FORMS;

COUNTING CIRCUITS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; FOURIER SERIES; HARMONIC DISTORTION; POLYNOMIALS; POWER CONVERTERS; PULSE MODULATION; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; WAVE FILTERS;

HARMONIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 77949888364     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2010.2041620     Document Type: Article

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