Charge balance law based on conservation of charge is stated and employed to analyze on-chip linear, Fibonacci and exponential charge pumps. For micro-power on-chip implementations, both the positiveand the negativeplate parasitic capacitors have to be considered. Voltage conversion ratios and efficiencies can be obtained in closed form for singleand dual-branch linear charge pumps, but not for...

The work in this paper presents the performance analysis of reduced component count converter which is 5-Level Active Neutral Point Converter (5LANPC). This 5-level has been configured by stacking traditional 3-Level with Flying Capacitor converter. Two types control algorithms were considered and compared to explore 5LANPC. first algorithm was based on Phase-Disposition-Pulse Width Modulation ...

This paper proposes a novel method based on pulse width modulation techniques toreduce and control the common-mode voltage in three-phase multilevel inverters. Besides controllingthe common-mode voltage, this method is capable of controlling capacitors voltages and load currentswith low switching losses and harmonic contents. In fact, due to the existence of different pulsepatterns and the poss...

This paper presents the hybrid seven-level cascaded active neutral-point-clamped (ANPC)-based multilevel converter. The converter topology is the cascaded connection of a three-level ANPC converter and an H-bridge per phase. The proposed topology provides a tradeoff between different component counts to achieve a good loss distribution, avoid direct series connection of semiconductor devices, k...

This paper presents a comprehensive review on three basic types of multilevel inverters i.e., diode-clamped, flying-capacitor, and cascaded H-bridge multilevel inverter and their variation for photovoltaic power system. The electrical power generated form photovoltaic power system is in DC form. Hence, it is necessary to be controlled and converted to useful form. Inverter is a power electronic...

Topologies for different DC-AC converters used on grid-connected photovoltaic (PV) inverters are analysed and compared within this paper. The main focus is to evaluate the supraharmonic emission in the frequency range 2 to 150 kHz. For this study three topologies are evaluated: Neutral Point Clamped (NPC), the Cascaded H-bridge (CHB) and the Flying Capacitor (FC). To approximate the operation c...

A new configuration of a resonant full-bridge flying capacitor multicell inverter has been designed and constructed with the aim of achieving an extended output voltage frequency range with low harmonic distortion and reduced semiconductor commutation losses. This configuration was tested as a power supply for two different coaxial dielectric barrier discharge reactors, one of them employed for...

Multilevel converters are a very interesting alternative for medium and high power drives. Of these topologies the Multicell group is popularly growing due to its advantages such as modularity and scalability. This paper proposes a new topology of cascaded H bridge Multicell 15 level Inverter which is the mixed form of flying capacitor and cascaded group. This inverter is based on the cascaded ...

The use of multilevel inverters is widespread in medium voltage applications due to their inherent voltage sharing among the devices. This work proposes three phase five level Flying Capacitor Multilevel Inverter (FCMLI) using various modulating techniques for induction motor load. These Pulse Width Modulating (PWM) techniques include Carrier Overlapping (CO) strategy, Variable Frequency (VF) s...

Multicell converter are a very interesting alternative for medium and high power drives. This paper presents a new configuration of double flying capacitor (DFCM) converter. The main advantages of the proposed converter in comparison with FCM and stacked multicell converter are doubling the rms and the number of output voltage levels, improving the output voltage frequency spectrum, and cancell...