An improved pulse width modulation method for chopper-cell-based modular multilevel converters

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 3472-3481

  Li, Zixin ^a   Wang, Ping ^a   Zhu, Haibin ^a   Chu, Zunfang ^a   Li, Yaohua ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING   (China)

Author keywords

Modular multilevel converter (MMC); pulse width modulation (PWM); voltage balancing

Indexed keywords

CLOSE LOOP; HALF-BRIDGE; HARMONIC CONTENTS; LOWER ARM; MODULAR MULTI-LEVEL CONVERTERS; OUTPUT VOLTAGES; PHASE SHIFTED; PULSE-WIDTH-MODULATED; SUBMODULES; VOLTAGE BALANCING;

ELECTRIC CONVERTERS;

PULSE WIDTH MODULATION;

EID: 84860312038     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2012.2187800     Document Type: Article

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