Cascade dual buck inverter with phase-shift control

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 2067-2077

  Sun, Pengwei ^a   Liu, Chuang ^b   Lai, Jih Sheng ^a   Chen, Chien Liang ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Cascade inverter; dual buck inverter; phase shift control

Indexed keywords

BUCK INVERTER; BUCK TOPOLOGY; CASCADE INVERTER; CASCADE TOPOLOGY; LOWER SWITCHING LOSS; PASSIVE COMPONENTS; PHASE SHIFT CONTROL; POWER MOSFETS; RIPPLE CURRENTS; SHOOT-THROUGH; SYSTEM RELIABILITY; ZERO-CROSSINGS; CASCADE DUAL-BUCK INVERTERS; DUAL BUCK INVERTERS; ZERO-CROSSING DISTORTIONS;

ACTIVE FILTERS;

ELECTRIC INVERTERS;

EID: 84863118392     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2011.2169282     Document Type: Article

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