Analysis of THD and output voltage performance for cascaded multilevel inverter using carrier pulse width modulation techniques

IET Power Electronics

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 951-958

  Palanivel, P ^a   Dash, S S ^a  

^a SRM INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CASCADED MULTILEVEL INVERTERS; CONSTANT SWITCHING FREQUENCY; FIVE LEVEL INVERTER; HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE; HIGH CURRENTS; HIGH OUTPUT VOLTAGE; HIGH VOLTAGE; MULTILEVEL INVERTER; MULTILEVEL INVERTER TOPOLOGY; OPTIMAL PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; OUTPUT VOLTAGES; PHASE SHIFTED PULSE; POWER DEVICES; SUBHARMONICS; TOTAL HARMONIC DISTORTIONS; VOLTAGE STRESS;

DC POWER TRANSMISSION; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR CORRECTION; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); FREQUENCY MODULATION; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; HARMONIC DISTORTION; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SWITCHING FREQUENCY; TOPOLOGY; WAVE FILTERS;

PULSE WIDTH MODULATION;

EID: 80052731916     PISSN: 17554535     EISSN: 17554543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-pel.2010.0332     Document Type: Article

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