Investigation of Capacitor Voltage Regulation in Modular Multilevel Converters with Staircase Modulation |
Shen, Ke
(Department of Electrical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology)
Wang, Jianze (Department of Electrical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology) Zhao, Dan (Center for Applied R&D, Monolithic Power Systems) Ban, Mingfei (Department of Electrical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology) Ji, Yanchao (Department of Electrical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology) Cai, Xingguo (Department of Electrical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology) |
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