Control and Experiment of Pulsewidth-Modulated Modular Multilevel Converters

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1737-1746

  Hagiwara, Makoto ^a   Akagi, Hirofumi ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Medium voltage power conversion; multilevel converters; voltage balancing control

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008039066     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: 19410107     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2009.2014236     Document Type: Article

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