Flying capacitors reduction in an improved double flying capacitor multicell converter controlled by a modified modulation method

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 3875-3887

  Dargahi, Vahid ^a   Khoshkbar Sadigh, Arash ^b   Abarzadeh, Mostafa ^c   Pahlavani, Mohammad Reza Alizadeh ^a   Shoulaie, Abbas ^a  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SAHAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Double flying capacitor multicell (DFCM) converter; flying capacitor multicell (FCM) converter; flying capacitors; natural self balancing; phase shifted carrier pulsewidth modulation (PSC PWM)

Indexed keywords

CONTROL STRATEGIES; DC VOLTAGE SOURCES; DC-LINK VOLTAGES; FLYING CAPACITOR; FLYING CAPACITOR MULTICELL CONVERTER; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; HIGH-FREQUENCY SWITCHES; LOW POWER; MODULATION METHODS; MULTICELL; OUTPUT VOLTAGES; PHASE SHIFTED; SELF-BALANCING; STORED ENERGY; VOLTAGE RATINGS;

DC POWER TRANSMISSION; POWER CONVERTERS; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; RATING;

CAPACITORS;

EID: 84861428989     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2012.2188647     Document Type: Article

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