Asymmetrical cascade multilevel converters with noninteger or dynamically changing DC voltage ratios: Concepts and modulation techniques

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 57, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2411-2418

  Lu, Shuai ^a   Mariéthoz, Sébastien ^b   Corzine, Keith A ^c  

^a MTS Systems Corp   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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

Author keywords

Asymmetrical multilevel converters; Multilevel modulation

Indexed keywords

CASCADE MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; CASCADE MULTILEVEL INVERTER; DC VOLTAGE; DC VOLTAGE RATIO; DESIGN AND CONTROL; MODULATION TECHNIQUES; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; MULTILEVEL MODULATION; SPACE VECTOR; VOLTAGE LEVELS;

ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; MODULATION;

VECTOR SPACES;

EID: 77953587393     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2010.2041734     Document Type: Article

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