Multilevel high voltage converter driving dielectric elastomer generators

Proceedings of the 2011 14th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications, EPE 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Graf, Christian ^a   Eitzen, Lars ^a   Maas, Jürgen ^a  

^a OSTWESTFALEN LIPPE UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Converter control; High voltage power converters; Modeling; Multilevel converters; Regenerative power; Renewable energy systems

Indexed keywords

CONVERTER CONTROLS; HIGH VOLTAGE POWER CONVERTERS; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; REGENERATIVE POWER; RENEWABLE ENERGY SYSTEMS;

CONTROLLERS; ELASTOMERS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRICITY; MODELS; POLYMERS; POWER ELECTRONICS; STRAIN ENERGY;

ELECTRIC GENERATORS;

EID: 80053461907     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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