A multilevel inverter with reduced number of switches

2012 IEEE Students' Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Science: Innovation for Humanity, SCEECS 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Nedumgatt, Jacob James ^a   Kumar, D Vijaya ^a   Kirubakaran, A ^a   Umashankar, S ^a  

^a VIT UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Carrier disposition; Multilevel inverter; PWM Techniques; Total Harmonic Distortion

Indexed keywords

CARRIER DISPOSITION; CASCADED MULTILEVEL INVERTERS; CONVENTIONAL TOPOLOGIES; GATE DRIVER CIRCUIT; HARMONIC SPECTRUM; HIGH POWER APPLICATIONS; HIGH VOLTAGE; MULTILEVEL INVERTER; NUMBER OF SWITCHES; OUTPUT WAVEFORM; POWER ELECTRONIC DEVICES; PWM TECHNIQUES; SEVEN-LEVEL; SWITCHING STRESS; TOTAL HARMONIC DISTORTION (THD);

COMPUTER SCIENCE; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; TOPOLOGY; WAVE FILTERS;

TIME SWITCHES;

EID: 84861165001     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SCEECS.2012.6184819     Document Type: Conference Paper

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