The effect of the filter inductor ESR on the natural balancing time constant of the flying capacitor converter

IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1119-1124

  Van Der Merwe, J W ^a   Du T Mouton, H ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FILTER INDUCTORS; FLYING CAPACITOR CONVERTER; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; SIMPLE EXPRESSION; TIME CONSTANTS;

CAPACITORS;

INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS;

EID: 78650395469     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISIE.2010.5636544     Document Type: Conference Paper

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