A new modular Marx derived multilevel converter

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

Volumn 349 AICT, Issue , 2011, Pages 573-580

  Encarnação, Luis ^a   Silva, José Fernando ^b   Pinto, Sónia F ^b   Redondo, Luis M ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE ENGENHARIA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Capacitor voltage equalization; Marx modulator; Modular Multilevel

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY NUMBER; CAPACITOR VOLTAGES; DC CAPACITOR; HIGH VOLTAGE; MARX GENERATORS; MARX MODULATORS; MODULAR MULTILEVEL; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; OFF-SHORE; POWER SWITCHING CONVERTERS; PULSED POWER APPLICATIONS; SIMULATION RESULT; TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION; WIND ENERGY;

ATMOSPHERICS; DC POWER TRANSMISSION; INNOVATION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; SWITCHING CIRCUITS; TOPOLOGY; WIND POWER;

CAPACITORS;

EID: 79952224958     PISSN: 18684238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-19170-1_63     Document Type: Conference Paper

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