The voltage and current THD values of the symmetric inverter operated by fundamental switching frequency are closer to the IEEE 519 standard. Some additional filter circuit is required to minimize the THD values within the specified limits. However symmetric multilevel inverter requires more number of components and driver circuits. Asymmetric multilevel inverter is proposed in this chapter to ...

Power electronic converters are becoming more and more popular for various industrial applications. To overcome the limitation of semiconductors current and voltage ratings in high power applications, series and parallel connection of switches is often considered an effective solution. In addition, stepped waveform in the output of inverter has better harmonic spectrum than 2-level waveform in ...

This paper shows the Matlab/Simulink implementation of the current control in a single phase full-bridge power inverter. In order to increase the performances of the power inverter an LC filter is connected at the input. Mathematical modelling of the power inverter is based on the switching functions. Unipolar asymmetric PWM modulation method, and hysteresis current control will be analyzed for...

In this paper a developed symmetric and asymmetric cascaded multilevel inverter is proposed. In asymmetric mode, the values of DC voltage sources are defined in a way that the number of output levels gets more than the condition when the symmetrical DC sources are used. In this regards, to calculate the required magnitudes of DC links several solutions are proposed. It’s obvious that the propos...

Power Inverters have a high range of applications not only in domestic appliances but also in industries for performing variety of operations regarding switching and conversion of electrical energy. The purpose of this research paper is to analyze a three phase inverter using PWM topology to obtain a smooth and pure sinusoidal wave form of good quality which ensures better operation for sensiti...

This paper presents a new cascaded multilevel inverter topology in asymmetric configuration. Initially general topology is presented and then extended for higher number of stages. In this paper a new cascade diagonal dc source multilevel inverter topology is proposed, which included the increased number of output voltage levels with minimum number of switches as well as with minimum dc voltage ...

An active power filter implemented with multiples single-phase full bridge voltage-source inverters connected in series (known as cascaded hybrid asymmetric multilevel inverter or binary multilevel VSI) is presented and analyzed in this paper. The proposed active power filter is aimed to compensate current harmonic components in medium and high voltage power distribution systems. A control sche...

In this paper, a new configuration for symmetrical and asymmetrical multilevel inverters is proposed. In asymmetric mode, different algorithms are suggested in order to determine the magnitudes of DC voltage sources. The merit of this topology to the conventional symmetric and asymmetric inverters is verified by the provided comparisons. This topology uses a lower number of power electronic dev...

The performance and reliability of NMOSFET asymmetric lightly doped drain (LDD) devices (with no LDD on the source side) are compared with those of conventional LDD devices. At a fixed Vdd; asymmetric LDD devices exhibit higher Idsat and shorter hot-carrier lifetime. To maintain the same hot-carrier lifetime, asymmetric LDD devices must operate at lower Vdd while higher Idsat is retained. For t...

This paper presents a power electronic interface (PEI) converter with three ports to connect a Photovoltaic system and a DC-microgrid to the main grid. The proposed converter is based on asymmetric Γ-source inverter, which makes two controllable ports in its DC side without utilizing any excessive DC/DC converters, which make it interesting for multi-port applications. The PEI system is expecte...