A cascade multilevel frequency changing converter for high-power applications

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 2118-2130

  Soto Sanchez, Diego E ^a   Pena, Rubén ^b   Cardenas, Roberto ^c   Clare, Jon ^d   Wheeler, Patrick ^d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE MAGALLANES   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Frequency conversion; multilevel converter; power conversion

Indexed keywords

CAPACITORS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; ROTARY CONVERTERS; VARIABLE SPEED DRIVES;

BUILDING BLOCKES; CAPACITOR VOLTAGES; CASCADE CONVERTERS; CASCADE MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; CURRENT COMPONENT; DC LINK CAPACITOR; H-BRIDGES; HIGH POWER APPLICATIONS; HIGH-POWER AC DRIVES; INPUT AND OUTPUTS; LARGE POWER; LOW POWER; MODULAR IMPLEMENTATION; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; OUTPUT FREQUENCY; OUTPUT VOLTAGES; POWER CONVERSION; POWER SUPPLY; VECTOR CONTROL TECHNIQUES;

TOPOLOGY;

EID: 84873669541     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2012.2194971     Document Type: Article

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