Improving the performance of modular multilevel converter by reducing the dead time effect

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Li, Zixin ^a   Li, Yaohua ^a   Wang, Ping ^a   Zhu, Haibin ^a   Chu, Zunfang ^a   Wang, Song ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING   (China)

Author keywords

Harmonics; High voltage power converters; Multilevel converters

Indexed keywords

DEAD TIME; DEAD TIME EFFECTS; HARMONICS; HIGH VOLTAGE APPLICATIONS; HIGH VOLTAGE POWER CONVERTERS; IMPROVED METHODS; MODULAR MULTI-LEVEL CONVERTERS; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; NARROW PULSE; OUTPUT VOLTAGES; REAL POWER; SUBMODULES;

ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; ELECTRIC INDUCTORS; POWER ELECTRONICS;

TIME SWITCHES;

EID: 80053504303     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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