The common cross-connected stage for the 5L ANPC medium voltage multilevel inverter

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 57, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2279-2286

  Chaudhuri, Toufann ^a   Rufer, Alfred ^b   Steimer, Peter K ^a  

^a ABB SWITZERLAND LTD   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cross connected; Multilevel; Phase capacitors; Voltage source inverter

Indexed keywords

BLOCKING VOLTAGE; GENERAL TOPOLOGY; L TOPOLOGY; MEDIUM VOLTAGE; MODULATION INDEXES; MULTILEVEL; MULTILEVEL INVERTER; MULTILEVEL VOLTAGE SOURCE INVERTER; NEUTRAL POINT CLAMPED; OUTPUT FILTERS; OUTPUT SIGNAL; POWER ELECTRONICS BUILDING BLOCKS; PROTOTYPING; RELIABLE UPGRADE; RESEARCH ACTIVITIES; SIMULATION RESULT; THREE PHASIS; VOLTAGE RATIOS; VOLTAGE SOURCE INVERTER;

CAPACITANCE; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; POWER ELECTRONICS; TOPOLOGY;

CAPACITORS;

EID: 77953596310     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2009.2033725     Document Type: Article

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