Five-Level T-type inverter based on multistate switching cell

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 3857-3866

  De Almeida Cacau, Ronny Glauber ^a   Torrico Bascopé, René Pastor ^a   Neto, João Aberides Ferreira ^a   Torrico Bascopé, Grover Victor ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^b GTB Power Electronics Research and Technology AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

High efficiency; multilevel converter; multistate switching cell (MSSC); T type converter

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC INVERTERS; TOPOLOGY;

CURRENT-SHARING; HIGH ORDER HARMONICS; INVERTER TOPOLOGIES; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; OUTPUT FILTERS; RIPPLE FREQUENCY; SWITCHING CELLS; T-TYPE CONVERTER;

SWITCHING;

EID: 84913580874     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2014.2311508     Document Type: Conference Paper

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