Symmetric multilevel inverter with reduced components based on non-insulated dc voltage sources

IET Power Electronics

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 571-581

  Farhadi Kangarlu, M ^a   Babaei, E ^a   Laali, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TABRIZ   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL COMPLEXITY; DC VOLTAGE SOURCES; GATE DRIVER CIRCUIT; GENERAL TOPOLOGY; HIGH-POWER; MULTILEVEL INVERTER; OUTPUT VOLTAGES; OUTPUT WAVEFORM; POWER PROCESSING; SWITCHING DEVICES; VOLTAGE LEVELS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

TOPOLOGY;

EID: 84862849349     PISSN: 17554535     EISSN: 17554543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-pel.2011.0263     Document Type: Article

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