The new high-efficiency hybrid neutral-point-clamped converter

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1919-1935

  Soeiro, Thiago B ^a   Kolar, Johann W ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Neutral point clamped converter (NPCC); space vector modulation (SVM); three level voltage source converters (VSCs)

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC LOAD DISPATCHING; POWER CONVERTERS; TOPOLOGY;

DC-LINK VOLTAGES; HIGHER EFFICIENCY; LOW SWITCHING FREQUENCY; NEUTRAL-POINT-CLAMPED CONVERTER; OPERATING CONDITION; OUTPUT POWER; SEMICONDUCTOR LOSS; SEVEN-LEVEL; SPACE VECTOR MODULATIONS (SVM); SYSTEM RELIABILITY; THREE-LEVEL; TOTAL CHIP AREA; VOLTAGE-SOURCE CONVERTER;

VECTOR SPACES;

EID: 84873380702     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2012.2209611     Document Type: Article

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