A generalized capacitor voltage balancing scheme for flying capacitor multilevel converters

Conference Proceedings - IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition - APEC

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 58-62

  Khazraei, Mostafa ^a   Sepahvand, Hossein ^a   Corzine, Keith ^a   Ferdowsi, Mehdi ^a  

^a MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITOR VOLTAGE BALANCING; CAPACITOR VOLTAGES; CLOSED-LOOP CONTROL; DIRECT RESPONSE; DUTY CYCLES; FLYING CAPACITOR; FLYING CAPACITOR CONVERTER; FLYING-CAPACITOR INVERTER; HARMONIC PERFORMANCE; LOWER SWITCHING LOSS; MEDIUM VOLTAGE; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; POWER ELECTRONIC CONVERTERS; REDUCED SWITCH; SELF-BALANCING; SIMPLE RULES; VOLTAGE BALANCING;

CAPACITANCE; CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; PAPER CAPACITORS; POWER ELECTRONICS;

CAPACITORS;

EID: 77952200556     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APEC.2010.5433693     Document Type: Conference Paper

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