Double flying capacitor multicell converter based on modified phase-shifted pulsewidth modulation

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1517-1526

  Sadigh, Arash Khoshkbar ^a   Hosseini, Seyed Hossein ^a   Sabahi, Mehran ^a   Gharehpetian, Gevorg B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TABRIZ   (Iran)

^b AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Cascaded multicell (CM) converter; Flying capacitor multicell (FCM) converter; Natural balance; Phase shifted pulsewidth modulation (PSPWM); Stacked multicell (SM) converter

Indexed keywords

CONTROL STRATEGIES; DC SOURCES; DC SYSTEM; EXPERIMENTAL SETUP; FLYING CAPACITOR; FLYING CAPACITOR CONVERTER; FLYING CAPACITOR MULTICELL CONVERTER; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; HIGH POWER APPLICATIONS; HIGH-FREQUENCY SWITCHES; LOW FREQUENCY; MULTICELL; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; OUTPUT VOLTAGES; PHASE SHIFTED; POWER SYSTEMS; SELF-BALANCING; SIMULATION RESULT; STACKED MULTICELL CONVERTERS; VOLTAGE RATINGS;

CAPACITANCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; MODULATION; POWER CONVERTERS; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; SPECTROSCOPY;

CAPACITORS;

EID: 77953116888     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2009.2039147     Document Type: Article

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