Multi-state commutation cells to increase current capacity of multi-level inverters

INTELEC, International Telecommunications Energy Conference (Proceedings)

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Bascopé, René P T ^a   Neto, João A F ^a   Bascopé, Grover V T ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^b GTB Power Electronics RandT AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

flying capacitor (FC) inverter; h bridge (HB) inverter; multi state switching cell (MSSC); neutral point clamped (NPC) inverter

Indexed keywords

BUS VOLTAGE; CURRENT CAPACITY; FIVE-LEVEL NPC INVERTER; FLYING CAPACITOR; H-BRIDGES; HIGH-POWER; MULTI STATE; MULTI-LEVEL; MULTILEVEL INVERTER; NEUTRAL POINT CLAMPED; NEUTRAL POINT CLAMPED (NPC) INVERTER; OUTPUT VOLTAGES; POWER PROCESSING; SINGLE PHASE; THREE PHASE;

CAPACITORS;

SWITCHING;

EID: 84855441972     PISSN: 02750473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/INTLEC.2011.6099806     Document Type: Conference Paper

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