Multilevel inverters have been developed due to limitations of the conventional two-level voltage source inverters (VSIs). Most of the topologies of multilevel inverters that have been presented in the literature are based on the sharing of the rated voltage between the switches so that the switches with lower voltage ratings can be used. In these topologies, the current rating of all of the sw...

Multilevel inverters are a source of high power, often used in medium-voltage application. Multilevel converters have received increased interest recently due to high quality output waveform and decrease the harmonic distortion in the output waveform without decreasing the inverter power output. A multilevel inverter uses a series of semiconductor power converters, thus generating higher voltag...

This paper presents the comparative study of three phase twenty five level diode clamped and cascaded H-bridge multilevel inverters. The comparison is made in respect of requirement of devices, quality of output voltage and reduction of total harmonic distortion at the multilevel inverter terminals. In this work multicarrier sinusoidal pulse modulation control methods of Phase disposition (PD-P...

multilevel inverters has big placement advantages in power electronics and its application can be mentioned to facts tools such as upfc – d-statcom. therefore, nowadays multilevel inverters have created vast field’s research and researchers are trying to present appropriate structures with fewer keys and greater advantages. the main advantages of multilevel inverters mentioned are low-key volta...

in this paper, a new cascaded multilevel inverter by capability of increasing the number of output voltage levels with reduced number of power switches is proposed. the proposed topology consists of series connection of a number of proposed basic multilevel units. in order to generate all voltage levels at the output, five different algorithms are proposed to determine the magnitude of dc volta...