Novel 3-level Hybrid Neutral-Point-Clamped Converter

IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference)

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 4457-4462

  Soeiro, Thiago B ^a   Kolar, Johann W ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DC-LINK VOLTAGES; HIGHER EFFICIENCY; NEUTRAL-POINT-CLAMPED CONVERTER; SEMICONDUCTOR LOSS; VOLTAGE SOURCE CONVERTERS;

POWER CONVERTERS; TOPOLOGY;

INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS;

EID: 84856540075     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IECON.2011.6120042     Document Type: Conference Paper

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