New multilevel converters with coupled inductors: Properties and control

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 58, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 5344-5351

  Floricau, Dan ^a   Floricau, Elena ^a   Gateau, Guillaume ^b,c,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY POLITEHNICA OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^d d'Hydraulique et des Telecommunications   (France)

^e CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Coupled inductors; multilevel converters; power converters; pulse width modulation

Indexed keywords

B CELLS; COUPLED INDUCTOR; DIFFERENT FREQUENCY; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; HIGH-CURRENT; LOW FREQUENCY; LOW-VOLTAGE; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; OPERATION PRINCIPLES; OUTPUT CURRENT; POWER DEVICES; PULSE WIDTH; SWITCHED CURRENTS; TEST BENCHES; THREE-LEVEL;

CELLS; HYDROFLUORIC ACID; POWER CONVERTERS; TOPOLOGY;

ELECTRIC INDUCTORS;

EID: 80053190869     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2011.2112319     Document Type: Conference Paper

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