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EV hybrid battery with integrated multilevel neutral-point-clamped interfacing and lossless intermodule state-of-charge balancing
(IEEE Open Journal Of The Industrial Electronics Society. 2025;6:130-144, 2025)The battery is at the heart of the electric vehicle and determines many of its key performance features. Therefore, an optimized design of the battery is critical. On the one hand, the design of batteries ... -
Multibattery charger system based on a multilevel dual-active-bridge power converter
(Electronics. 2025 Apr 19;14(8):1659, 2025-04-19)This work introduces a novel battery charger implemented with a four-level three-phase neutral-point-clamped converter and a four-level single-phase dual-active-bridge converter, which offers the intrinsic ... -
Electric vehicle powertrains with modular battery banks tied to multilevel NPC inverters
(Electronics. 2023;12(2):266, 2023)Nowadays, the internal combustion engine in vehicles is being replaced by electric motors, giving way to the electric vehicle, which results in reduced environmental impact, higher efficiency and lower ... -
Active thermal control in neutral-point-clamped multilevel converters based on switching-cell arrays
(Electronics. 2023;12(19):4055, 2023)Neutral-point-clamped multilevel converters are a suitable solution to the implementation of low–medium voltage and power applications at present, thanks to their intrinsic superior voltage and current ... -
Fast reliability assessment of neutral-point-clamped topologies through Markov models
(IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics. 2021;36(12), 2021-06-08)This article presents detailed Markov models for the reliability assessment of multilevel neutral-point-clamped (NPC) converter leg topologies, incorporating their inherent fault-tolerance under ... -
A survey on capacitor voltage control in neutral-point-clamped multilevel converters
(Electronics. 2022 Feb 10;11(4):527, 2022-02-10)Neutral-point-clamped multilevel converters are currently a suitable solution for a wide range of applications. It is well known that the capacitor voltage balance is a major issue for this topology. ...