A single-phase multilevel inverter using switched series/parallel DC voltage sources

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 57, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2643-2650

  Hinago, Youhei ^a   Koizumi, Hirotaka ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cascaded H bridge (CHB); hybrid modulation (HM); multilevel inverter; switched series parallel

Indexed keywords

CASCADED H-BRIDGE; CIRCUIT CONFIGURATIONS; DC VOLTAGE SOURCES; DRIVING CIRCUITS; H-BRIDGES; HYBRID MODULATION; MATLAB /SIMULINK; MULTILEVEL INVERTER; NUMBER OF GATES; OUTPUT WAVEFORM; POWER CONSUMPTION; SIMULATION RESULT; SWITCHING DEVICES; VOLTAGE LEVELS;

DC POWER TRANSMISSION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; MODULATION;

ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS;

EID: 77954616098     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2009.2030204     Document Type: Article

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