Analysis of dc-link capacitor current in three-level neutral point clamped and cascaded H-bridge inverters

IET Power Electronics

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1376-1389

  Orfanoudakis, Georgios I ^a   Yuratich, Michael A ^b   Sharkh, Suleiman M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b One Ropley Business Park   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITOR CURRENT; CASCADED H-BRIDGE INVERTERS; MODULATION STRATEGY; NUMERICAL APPROACHES; ROOT-MEAN-SQUARE VALUES (RMS); THREE-LEVEL INVERTERS; THREE-LEVEL NEUTRAL POINT CLAMPED; TWO-LEVEL INVERTERS;

BRIDGE CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; MODULATION;

CAPACITORS;

EID: 84881506156     PISSN: 17554535     EISSN: 17554543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-pel.2012.0422     Document Type: Article

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