New multilevel Flying-Capacitor inverters with coupled-inductors

Proceedings of the International Conference on Optimisation of Electrical and Electronic Equipment, OPTIM

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 764-769

  Floricau, D ^a   Gateau, G ^b   Meynard, T A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY POLITEHNICA OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COUPLED INDUCTOR; FLYING-CAPACITOR INVERTER; INVERTER-BASED; OUTPUT VOLTAGES; PARALLEL CONNECTIONS; PHASE SHIFTED; SWITCH CONTROL; THREE-LEVEL;

ELECTRIC CONNECTORS; OPTIMIZATION; SWITCHING FREQUENCY; TOPOLOGY;

CAPACITORS;

EID: 84864658262     PISSN: 18420133     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/OPTIM.2012.6231882     Document Type: Conference Paper

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