Elimination of one dc voltage source in stacked multicell converters

IET Power Electronics

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 644-658

  Khoshkbar Sadigh, A ^a   Dargahi, V ^b   Pahlavani, M R A ^c   Shoulaie, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b IRAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^c MALEK ASHTAR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL STRATEGIES; DC VOLTAGE SOURCES; EXPERIMENTAL SETUP; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; HIGH-FREQUENCY SWITCHES; KAPTEYN SERIES; LOW FREQUENCY; MULTICELL; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; PHASE SHIFTED; SELF-BALANCING; STACKED MULTICELL CONVERTERS; STATE SPACE REPRESENTATION; STATE-SPACE MODELS; SWITCHING INSTANTS; VOLTAGE RATINGS;

CAPACITORS;

ELECTRIC INVERTERS;

EID: 84865853172     PISSN: 17554535     EISSN: 17554543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-pel.2011.0320     Document Type: Article

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