Efficient sequential switching hybrid-modulation techniques for cascaded multilevel inverters

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1639-1648

  Govindaraju, C ^a   Baskaran, K ^b  

^a GOVERNMENT COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING   (India)

^b GOVERNMENT COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Cascaded multilevel inverter (CMLI); digital signal processor (DSP); harmonic analysis; hybrid modulation; power loss analysis

Indexed keywords

CASCADED MULTILEVEL INVERTERS; COMPLEX PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC DEVICE; HARMONIC PERFORMANCE; HYBRID MODULATION; MAIN CHARACTERISTICS; PHASE OPPOSITION DISPOSITIONS; PHASE SHIFTED; PHYSICAL STRUCTURES; POWER LOSS ANALYSIS; POWER MODULE; POWER-LOSSES; SINGLE CARRIER; SPACE VECTOR MODULATION; SWITCHING LOSS; THREE PHASE;

COUNTING CIRCUITS; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSORS; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; LOGIC DEVICES; MODULATORS; OPTICAL LOSSES; POWER CONVERTERS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPEED CONTROL; VECTOR SPACES;

SEQUENTIAL SWITCHING;

EID: 79960909522     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2010.2089064     Document Type: Article

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