Power electronic traction transformer-low voltage prototype

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 5522-5534

  Dujic, Drazen ^a   Zhao, Chuanhong ^a   Mester, Akos ^a   Steinke, Juergen K ^a   Weiss, Michael ^a   Lewdeni Schmid, Silvia ^a   Chaudhuri, Toufann ^a   Stefanutti, Philippe ^a  

^a ABB SWITZERLAND LTD   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Multilevel converter; power electronics transformer; resonant converter; traction application

Indexed keywords

CONTROL HARDWARES; DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; POWER ELECTRONICS TRANSFORMER; RESONANT CONVERTERS; SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS; TRACTION APPLICATIONS; TRACTION TRANSFORMER;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

POWER ELECTRONICS;

EID: 84879101579     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2013.2248756     Document Type: Article

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