Current sensorless power balance strategy for DC/DC converters in a cascaded multilevel converter based solid state transformer

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 17-22

  She, Xu ^a   Huang, Alex Q ^a   Ni, Xijun ^a  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Cascaded multilevel converter; dual active bridge converter; power balance; solid state transformer

Indexed keywords

CASCADED MULTILEVEL; CASCADED MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; CURRENT SENSORLESS; DUAL ACTIVE BRIDGE CONVERTER; POWER BALANCE; RECTIFIER STAGE; SOLID STATE TRANSFORMER (SST); VOLTAGE BALANCE;

DC-DC CONVERTERS;

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS;

EID: 84881088757     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2013.2256149     Document Type: Article

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