Multilevel converters have been under research and development for more than three
decades and have found successful industrial application. However, this is still a technology …

With wide-spread application of power electronic converters in high power systems, there
has been a growing interest in system reliability analysis and fault-tolerant capabilities. This …

With wide-spread application of power electronic systems across many different industries,
their reliability is being studied extensively. This paper presents a comprehensive review of …

Inverters play key roles in motor drives, flexible power transmissions, and recently grid-tied
renewable energy generation units. Therefore, availability and reliability of inverters have …

This paper presents an experimental study on the ageing of insulated-gate bipolar transistor
(IGBT) power modules. The aim is to identify the effects of power cycling on these devices …

This paper is related to faults that can appear in multilevel (ML) inverters, which have a high
number of components. This is a subject of increasing importance in high-power inverters …

Cascaded H-bridge multilevel converter (CHMC) is a promising topology for flexible ac
transmission systems such as static synchronous compensator (STATCOM) applications …

Reliability is one of the key issues for the application of Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistors
(IGBTs) in power electronic converters. Many efforts have been devoted to the reduction of …

The supervision of semiconductor power devices in operation demonstrates an obvious
interest to improve the operating safety of electronic power converters used in critical …

Compared with neutral-point-clamped (NPC) inverters, active NPC (ANPC) inverters enable
a substantially increased output power and an improved performance at zero speed for high …