Recent advances in multilevel converter/inverter topologies and applications

2010 International Power Electronics Conference - ECCE Asia -, IPEC 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 492-501

  Peng, Fang Z ^a   Qian, Wei ^a   Cao, Dong ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Capacitor clamped multilevel; Cascaded multilevel; Diode clamped multilevel; Modular multilevel converter

Indexed keywords

CASCADE MULTILEVEL INVERTER; CASCADED MULTILEVEL; DIODE CLAMPED MULTILEVEL; DIODE-CLAMPED MULTILEVEL INVERTERS; FACTS DEVICES; FLYING CAPACITOR; HIGH POWER APPLICATIONS; HIGH VOLTAGE; MODULAR MULTILEVEL CONVERTERS; MOTOR DRIVE; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; MULTILEVEL INVERTER; MULTILEVEL INVERTER TOPOLOGY; NEUTRAL POINT CLAMPED; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; POWER CONVERSION; POWER SYSTEM APPLICATIONS; POWER SYSTEMS; PROS AND CONS; SYSTEM CONFIGURATIONS; ZIGZAG TRANSFORMER;

CAPACITORS; DIODES; ELECTRIC DRIVES; POWER ELECTRONICS; POWER TRANSFORMERS; TOPOLOGY;

ELECTRIC INVERTERS;

EID: 77956552726     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPEC.2010.5544625     Document Type: Conference Paper

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