New active stacked NPC multilevel converter: Operation and features

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 57, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2272-2278

  Floricau, Dan ^a   Gateau, Guillaume ^b,c   Leredde, Alexandre ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY POLITEHNICA OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^c Laboratoire Plasma et Conversion d'Energie   (France)

Author keywords

High power applications; Medium voltage; Modulation; Multilevel converters; Voltage source converter (VSC)

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE SWITCHES; HIGH POWER APPLICATIONS; MEDIUM VOLTAGE; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; NEUTRAL POINT CLAMPED; OUTPUT VOLTAGES; POWER DEVICES; SIMULATION RESULT; THREE-LEVEL; THREE-LEVEL CONVERTERS; VOLTAGE-SOURCE CONVERTER;

ELECTRIC LOAD DISPATCHING; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; SWITCHING FREQUENCY;

POWER CONVERTERS;

EID: 77953598907     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2009.2033484     Document Type: Article

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