Multilevel inverters for low-power application

IET Power Electronics

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 384-392

  De, S ^a   Banerjee, D ^a   Siva Kumar, K ^b   Gopakumar, K ^b   Ramchand, R ^b   Patel, C ^b  

^a HONEYWELL TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTRACTIVE SOLUTIONS; BODY DIODE; CLAMPING DIODE; DIODE-CLAMPED INVERTER; DIODE-CLAMPED MULTILEVEL INVERTERS; FREQUENCY OF OPERATION; HIGH POWER APPLICATIONS; INVERTER LEGS; ITS EFFICIENCIES; LOW POWER; LOW POWER APPLICATION; MEDIUM VOLTAGE; MOS-FET; MOSFETS; MULTILEVEL INVERTER; OUTPUT FILTERS; PM MOTOR DRIVE; POWER-LOSSES; REVERSE RECOVERY; THREE-LEVEL; THREE-LEVEL NEUTRAL POINT CLAMPED; TRADE-OFF ANALYSIS; UPS SYSTEMS;

ACTIVE FILTERS; DIODES; ELECTRIC DRIVES; MOSFET DEVICES; SWITCHING FREQUENCY; UNINTERRUPTIBLE POWER SYSTEMS;

POWER SUPPLY CIRCUITS;

EID: 79959717857     PISSN: 17554535     EISSN: 17554543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-pel.2010.0027     Document Type: Article

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