A new multilevel carrier based pulse width modulation method for modular multilevel inverter

8th International Conference on Power Electronics - ECCE Asia: "Green World with Power Electronics", ICPE 2011-ECCE Asia

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1432-1439

  Sedghi, S ^a   Dastfan, A ^a   Ahmadyfard, A ^a  

^a SHAHROOD UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

carrier waveform; modular multilevel inverter; modulation index; multilevel carrier based PWM; switching frequency

Indexed keywords

CARRIER BASED PWM; CARRIER WAVEFORM; COMMON MODE VOLTAGE; GATE SIGNALS; HARMONIC SPECTRUM; MODULATION INDEXES; MULTILEVEL INVERTER; ROTATING CARRIER; SEVEN-LEVEL; SWITCHING PATTERNS; THREE PHASE; WAVE FORMS; WAVEFORM QUALITY;

ELECTRIC INVERTERS; POWER ELECTRONICS; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

MODULATION;

EID: 80052099332     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPE.2011.5944452     Document Type: Conference Paper

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