A novel multilevel inverter based on switched dc sources

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 61, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 3269-3278

  Gupta, Krishna Kumar ^a   Jain, Shailendra ^a  

^a MAULANA AZAD NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Classical topologies; Multilevel inverter (MLI); Pulsewidth modulation (PWM); Reduced component count; Total harmonic distortion (THD)

Indexed keywords

BRIDGE CIRCUITS; TOPOLOGY;

CASCADED H-BRIDGE; CLASSICAL TOPOLOGIES; COMPONENT COUNT; FIVE LEVEL INVERTER; MULTI LEVEL INVERTER (MLI); MULTILEVEL INVERTER; POWER SWITCHES; TOTAL HARMONIC DISTORTION (THD);

ELECTRIC INVERTERS;

EID: 84894031520     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2013.2282606     Document Type: Article

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