Systematic design of high-performance hybrid cascaded multilevel inverters with active voltage balance and minimum switching losses

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 3100-3113

  Mariethoz, Sébastien ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

AC DC power converters; Asymmetrical multilevel inverters; Cascade multilevel inverters; Hybrid multilevel inverters; Multilevel converters; Multilevel topologies; Pulse width modulation converters; Series connected converters

Indexed keywords

AC-DC POWER CONVERTERS; CASCADE MULTILEVEL INVERTER; HYBRID MULTILEVEL INVERTER; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; MULTILEVEL INVERTER; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION CONVERTERS; SERIES-CONNECTED CONVERTERS;

DESIGN; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; MODULATION; TOPOLOGY;

EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84872036100     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2012.2222446     Document Type: Article

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