Design of a New Single Phase 7-Level Reduced Switches Count Multilevel Inverter Topology

Abstract

This chapter presents a new single-phase multilevel inverter topology. This topology requires fewer components in comparison to conventional multilevel inverter topology such as diode clamped, flying capacitor, and cascade h-bridge inverter. In this topology, no extra clamping diode and no extra clamping capacitor are required for operation. This chapter also presents the control and modulation techniques. These techniques applied on this proposed MLI topology and simulation result are calculated with the help of MATLAB/SIMULINK software and are compared on the basis of THD with over and under modulation index.