Enhanced voltage balancing of a flying capacitor multilevel converter using phase disposition (PD) modulation

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1933-1942

  McGrath, Brendan Peter ^a   Holmes, Donald Grahame ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Double Fourier; flying capacitor; multilevel converter; natural balance; phase disposition (PD)

Indexed keywords

FLYING CAPACITOR; FOURIER; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; NATURAL BALANCE; PHASE DISPOSITION (PD);

CAPACITORS;

EID: 80051699202     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2010.2097279     Document Type: Article

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