Generalisation of flying capacitor-based active-neutral-point-clamped multilevel converter using voltage-level modulation

IET Power Electronics

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 456-466

  Pulikanti, S R ^a   Konstantinou, G S ^b   Agelidis, V G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DC LINK CAPACITOR; FLYING CAPACITOR; GENERALISATION; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; PHASE SHIFTED; SEVEN-LEVEL; THREE-LEVEL; THREE-PHASE CONVERTER; VOLTAGE SOURCE CONVERTERS; VOLTAGE WAVEFORMS; WAVE FORMS;

ELECTRIC INVERTERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POWER CONVERTERS; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

CAPACITORS;

EID: 84860285044     PISSN: 17554535     EISSN: 17554543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-pel.2010.0373     Document Type: Article

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