Hybrid seven-level cascaded active neutral-point-clamped-based multilevel converter under SHE-PWM

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 60, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 4794-4804

  Pulikanti, Sridhar R ^a   Konstantinou, Georgios ^b   Agelidis, Vassilios G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Active neutral point clamped (ANPC) converter; Hybrid converter; Selective harmonic elimination pulsewidth modulation (SHE PWM); Voltage balancing

Indexed keywords

LAND VEHICLE PROPULSION; MODULATION; POWER CONVERTERS; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; TOPOLOGY;

ACTIVE NEUTRAL-POINT-CLAMPED (ANPC) CONVERTER; CONVERTER TOPOLOGIES; EXTENSIVE SIMULATIONS; HYBRID CONVERTERS; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; OPERATING PRINCIPLES; SELECTIVE HARMONIC ELIMINATION; VOLTAGE BALANCING;

ELECTRIC INVERTERS;

EID: 84879074639     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2012.2218551     Document Type: Article

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