Medium-voltage power electronic technologies for future decentralized power systems

Proceedings of the Power Conversion Conference-Osaka 2002, PCC-Osaka 2002

Volumn 3, Issue , 2002, Pages 927-932

  De Doncker, R W ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

medium voltage converters; power quality

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC INVERTERS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES;

CONVERTER TOPOLOGIES; ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGIES; MARKET PENETRATION; MEDIUM VOLTAGE INVERTER; MEDIUM-VOLTAGE CONVERTER; PWM VOLTAGE SOURCE INVERTERS; QUALITY PRODUCT; SOFT-SWITCHING TECHNIQUE;

POWER QUALITY;

EID: 84961904679     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PCC.2002.998093     Document Type: Conference Paper

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