A new multilevel converter topology with reduced number of power electronic components

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 655-667

  Ebrahimi, Javad ^a   Babaei, Ebrahim ^b   Gharehpetian, Gevorg B ^a  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TABRIZ   (Iran)

Author keywords

Bidirectional switch; cascaded multilevel converter; full bridge converter; multilevel converter; submultilevel converter

Indexed keywords

BIDIRECTIONAL SWITCH; CASCADED MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; FULL BRIDGE CONVERTERS; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; SUBMULTILEVEL CONVERTER;

DC POWER TRANSMISSION; POWER CONVERTERS;

TOPOLOGY;

EID: 80054806782     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2011.2151813     Document Type: Article

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