A survey on cascaded multilevel inverters

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 57, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2197-2206

  Malinowski, Mariusz ^a   Gopakumar, K ^b   Rodriguez, Jose ^c   Perez, Marcelo A ^c  

^a WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^c DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Chile)

Author keywords

Cascaded inverters; Modulation and control; Multilevel converters

Indexed keywords

CASCADED INVERTERS; CASCADED MULTILEVEL INVERTERS; COMPONENT CONFIGURATIONS; CONTROL STRATEGIES; HIGH QUALITY; INPUT CURRENT; LOW-VOLTAGE; MEDIUM VOLTAGE; MODULATION TECHNIQUES; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; OUTPUT VOLTAGES; POWER CELLS; SERIES CONNECTIONS;

MODULATION; SURVEYS; TOPOLOGY;

ELECTRIC INVERTERS;

EID: 77953591773     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2009.2030767     Document Type: Review

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