Comparison between flying capacitor and modular multilevel inverters

IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference)

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 271-276

  Adam, G P ^a   Anaya Lara, O ^a   Burt, G ^a   Finney, S J ^a   Williams, B W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

And modular inverter; Cascaded multilevel inverter; Diode clamped inverter; Flying capacitor inverter

Indexed keywords

CASCADED MULTILEVEL INVERTERS; DC LINK CAPACITOR; DIODE CLAMPED INVERTER; FLYING CAPACITOR; FLYING CAPACITOR MULTILEVEL INVERTER; FLYING-CAPACITOR INVERTER; MULTILEVEL INVERTER; OPERATING CONDITION; OPERATIONAL PRINCIPLES;

CAPACITANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS; LAND VEHICLE PROPULSION; POWER CONVERTERS;

CAPACITORS;

EID: 77951525112     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IECON.2009.5414934     Document Type: Conference Paper

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