Design of a cascaded H-bridge multilevel inverter based on power electronics building blocks and control for high performance

Journal of Power Electronics

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 262-269

  Park, Young Min ^a   Ryu, Han Seong ^a   Lee, Hyun Won ^a   Jung, Myung Gil ^a   Lee, Se Hyun ^a  

^a Hyundai Heavy Industries   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Cascaded H bridge multilevel inverter; PEBB; PWM synchronization; Unbalance three phase control; Voltage delay compensation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952638275     PISSN: 15982092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.6113/JPE.2010.10.3.262     Document Type: Article

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