Multicarrier interleaved PWM strategies for a five-level NPC inverter using a three-phase coupled inductor

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2549-2558

  Vafakhah, Behzad ^a,b   Ewanchuk, Jeffrey ^a   Salmon, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b FORD MOTOR COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coupled inductor inverter (CII); multicarrier pulsewidthmodulation (PWM); multilevel interleaved PWM; multilevel inverter; neutral point clamped (NPC) inverter

Indexed keywords

COUPLED INDUCTOR; FIVE-LEVEL NPC INVERTER; HARMONIC SPECTRUM; INDUCTOR CURRENTS; INVERTER OPERATIONS; MULTI CARRIER; MULTICARRIER PULSEWIDTHMODULATION (PWM); MULTILEVEL INVERTER; NEUTRAL POINT CLAMPED INVERTERS; NEUTRAL-POINT-CLAMPED (NPC) INVERTER; POWER-LOSSES; PWM ALGORITHMS; PWM STRATEGY; PWM TECHNIQUES; SPACE VECTOR PWM; WAVE FORMS; WINDING INDUCTANCE;

ELECTRIC INVERTERS; POWER CONVERTERS; VECTOR SPACES;

ELECTRIC INDUCTORS;

EID: 82055177190     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2011.2168931     Document Type: Article

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