Multilevel power converters

Power Electronics Handbook

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 451-482

  Khomfoi, Surin ^a   Tolbert, Leon M ^a  

^a University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

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EID: 84866237781     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-012088479-7/50035-3     Document Type: Chapter

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