Solution trajectories for selective harmonic elimination pulse-width modulation for seven-level waveforms: Analysis and implementation

IET Power Electronics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 22-30

  Konstantinou, G S ^a   Dahidah, M S A ^b   Agelidis, V G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM MALAYSIA CAMPUS   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DC-AC CONVERTER; DYNAMIC CHANGES; MODULATION INDEXES; MULTILEVEL INVERTER; OUTPUT FREQUENCY; SELECTIVE HARMONIC ELIMINATION; SEVEN-LEVEL; STEADY-STATE OPERATION; SWITCHING INSTANTS; WAVE FORMS;

PULSE MODULATION; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS;

EID: 84055191549     PISSN: 17554535     EISSN: 17554543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-pel.2010.0220     Document Type: Article

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