Harmonic distortion optimization of cascaded H-bridge inverters considering device voltage drops and noninteger dc voltage ratios

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 60, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 3106-3114

  Diong, Bill ^a   Sepahvand, Hossein ^b   Corzine, Keith A ^b  

^a SOUTHERN POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Distortion minimization; multilevel inverter; output voltage distortion; single phase inverter

Indexed keywords

BRIDGE CIRCUITS;

CASCADED H-BRIDGE INVERTERS; DISTORTION MINIMIZATION; DISTORTION OPTIMIZATION; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; MULTILEVEL INVERTER; OUTPUT VOLTAGES; SINGLE-PHASE INVERTERS; TOTAL HARMONIC DISTORTION (THD);

ELECTRIC INVERTERS;

EID: 84876253660     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2012.2202351     Document Type: Article

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