• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.488-493
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• 2014

This paper presents a carrier-based pulse-width modulation(PWM) method for reducing the common-mode voltage of a three-level four-leg converter. The idea of the proposed PWM method is intuitive and easy to be implemented in digital signal processor-based converter control systems. On the basis of the analysis of space-vector PWM(SVPWM) and sinusoidal PWM(SPWM) switching patterns, the fourth leg pole voltage of the three-phase converter called "f leg pole voltage" is manipulated to reduce the common-mode voltage. To synthesize f leg pole voltage for the suppression of the common-mode voltage, positive and negative pole voltage references of f leg are calculated. An offset voltage is also deduced to prevent the distortion of a, b, and c phase voltages. The feasibility of the proposed PWM method is verified by simulation and experimental results. The common-mode voltage of the proposed PWM method in peak-to-peak value is 33% in comparison with that of the conventional SVPWM method. The transition number of the common-mode voltage is also reduced to 25%.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.44-49
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• 1974

reactance modulator composed of multi-stage phase modulator utilizing VVC diodes as variable reactance elements and an oscillartor-modulator, utilizing a VVC diode as a tuning element, coupled to a crystal resonator through an artificial λ/4 network are introduced and their characteristics as FM modulator are compared mutually from the practical view points. especially, to get high modulation sensitivity of reactance modulators using VVC diodes, making a multi-stage modulation distortion characteristics of multi-stage modulator was necessary. The harmonic moj\dulationdistorion characteristics of multi-stage reactance modulator is analized in detall. Multi-stage reachance modulator is preferable to maintain sufficiently stable carrier frequency over the wide range of temperature and a mobile-transceiver was made through this method. On the other hand, FM-Quartz oscillator using a VVc diode is suitavle for handy-talkies of good quality were made through this method.