A different multilevel current-source inverter

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 57, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2623-2632

  Vázquez, Nimrod ^a   López, Hector ^a   Hernández, Claudia ^a   Vázquez, Esl ^a   Osorio, Ren ^a   Arau, Jaime ^b  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE INGENIERÍA QUÍMICA   (Mexico)

^b CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIÓN Y DESARROLLO TECNOLÓGICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Current source; dc ac converter; low harmonic distortion; multilevel converter

Indexed keywords

CURRENT SOURCE; CURRENT SOURCE INVERTER; CURRENT SOURCES; INDUCTOR CURRENTS; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; MULTIPLE CARRIERS; REFERENCE SIGNALS; SINUSOIDAL PULSE; VOLTAGE-SOURCE INVERTER;

HARMONIC DISTORTION;

EID: 77954588635     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2009.2030814     Document Type: Article

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