A Survey on Cascaded Multilevel Inverters

By Mariusz Malinowski, Krishnaa Gopakumar, José Raúl Rodríguez Rodríguez, Marcelo A. Perez. IEEE transactions on industrial electronics (1982. Print), 2010

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