Cascaded multilevel inverter with series connection of novel H-bridge basic units

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 61, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 6664-6671

  Babaei, Ebrahim ^a   Laali, Sara ^a   Alilu, Somayeh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TABRIZ   (Iran)

Author keywords

Cascaded multilevel inverter; developed H bridge; multilevel inverter

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BRIDGE CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC SWITCHES; LAND VEHICLE PROPULSION; THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT; TOPOLOGY;

CASCADED MULTI-LEVEL INVERTERS; DC VOLTAGE SOURCES; DIFFERENT VOLTAGES; H-BRIDGES; MULTILEVEL INVERTER; POWER ELECTRONIC DEVICES; SERIES CONNECTIONS; SINGLE-PHASE INVERTERS;

ELECTRIC INVERTERS;

EID: 84907487499     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2014.2316264     Document Type: Article

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