Three-phase hybrid multilevel inverter based on half-bridge modules

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 668-678

  Batschauer, Alessandro Luiz ^a   Mussa, Samir Ahmad ^b   Heldwein, Marcelo Lobo ^b  

^a SANTA CATARINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Hybrid converters; multilevel converters; PWM modulation; three phase inverters

Indexed keywords

DC SOURCES; DIODE BRIDGE; HALF-BRIDGE; HYBRID CONVERTERS; HYBRID MULTILEVEL INVERTER; MEDIUM VOLTAGE; MODULATION SCHEMES; MULTI-PULSE RECTIFIERS; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; POWER FLOWS; THREE-PHASE INVERTER; THREE-PHASE VOLTAGE SOURCE INVERTERS;

DC POWER TRANSMISSION; ELECTRIC INVERTERS;

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS;

EID: 80054806973     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2011.2158039     Document Type: Article

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