Three-level active neutral-point-clamped zero-current-transition converter for sustainable energy systems

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3680-3693

  Li, Jin ^a,b   Liu, Jinjun ^a   Boroyevich, Dushan ^b   Mattavelli, Paolo ^b   Xue, Yaosuo ^c  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Active rectifier; inverter; multilevel converter; power conversion; soft switching

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE RECTIFIERS; AUXILIARY CIRCUITS; AUXILIARY SWITCH; CIRCUIT OPERATION; CURRENT RATING; DC VOLTAGE; HALF-BRIDGE; HIGH-POWER; INVERTER; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; NUMBER OF COMPONENTS; OPERATION PRINCIPLES; PARASITIC INDUCTANCES; POWER CONVERSION; POWER CONVERSION SYSTEMS; RESONANT TANKS; SOFT COMMUTATION; SUSTAINABLE ENERGY; SUSTAINABLE ENERGY SYSTEMS; SWITCHING LOSS; THREE-LEVEL; TURN-OFF LOSS; VOLTAGE RATINGS; ZERO-CURRENT-TRANSITION;

DC POWER TRANSMISSION; ENERGY CONSERVATION; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; SOFT SWITCHING; SWITCHING; TOPOLOGY;

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS;

EID: 83455178251     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2011.2161890     Document Type: Article

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