Impact of EMC Filters on the Power Density of Modern Three-Phase PWM Converters

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1577-1588

  Heldwein, Marcelo Lobo ^a   Kolar, Johann W ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) filters; power density; sparse matrix converter (SMC); three phase pulsewidth modulation (PWM) converters; Vienna rectifier

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008054196     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: 19410107     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2009.2014238     Document Type: Article

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