Five-level cascade asymmetric multilevel converter

IET Power Electronics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 120-128

  Gonzalez S A ^a   Valla, M I ^a   Christiansen, C F ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIVE-LEVEL CONVERTER; HYBRID CONVERTERS; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; NUMBER OF COMPONENTS; P-SPICE SIMULATION; VOLTAGE BALANCING; VOLTAGE LEVELS;

SPICE;

TOPOLOGY;

EID: 77956543690     PISSN: 17554535     EISSN: 17554543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-pel.2008.0318     Document Type: Article

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