Cascaded multilevel inverters synthesize a medium-voltage output based on a series
connection of power cells which use standard low-voltage component configurations. This …

Multilevel converters are considered today as the state-of-the-art power-conversion systems
for high-power and power-quality demanding applications. This paper presents a tutorial on …

In the last decades, multilevel converters have been developed usually for medium-voltage
high-power applications. They have become a mature solution for the increasing power …

This paper describes the operation of modular multilevel converter, an emerging and highly
attractive topology for medium-and high-voltage applications. A new pulsewidth-modulation …

A novel switched-capacitor inverter is proposed. The proposed inverter outputs larger
voltage than the input voltage by switching the capacitors in series and in parallel. The …

This paper presents a model predictive current control algorithm that is suitable for multilevel
converters and its application to a three-phase cascaded H-bridge inverter. This control …

A novel multilevel inverter with a small number of switching devices is proposed. It consists
of an H-bridge and an inverter which outputs multilevel voltage by switching the dc voltage …

Converters for photovoltaic (PV) systems usually consist of two stages: a dc/dc booster and a
pulsewidth modulated (PWM) inverter. This cascade of converters presents efficiency issues …

In this paper, authors propose a new power multilevel converter topology that is very
competitive compared to the existing ones. It consists of packed U cells (PUC). Each U cell …

This paper proposes a new space-vector pulsewidth modulation (SV-PWM) strategy for a
three-level neutral point clamped inverter. The presented SV-PWM strategy makes it …