A Review on Reduced Switch Count Multilevel Inverter Topologies
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Multilevel Inverters (MLIs) are becoming more and more popular in medium and high power applications. This is due to several inherent advantages of MLI over two-level inverters such as high-quality output, lower device ratings, and several others. While the classical topologies are still having applications in most of the key areas, there is a growing interest in newer multilevel topologies with an objective of reducing power semiconductor device count, gate drivers and/or isolated DC sources. In this paper, a comprehensive review of some of the recently proposed newer multilevel inverter topologies with the abovementioned objectives is presented. In this article, a detailed investigation in terms of total power semiconductor switch count, number of DC sources, passive component requirement, highest switch voltage rating, total standing voltage etc. has been presented.
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- Authors
- Omer, P., Kumar, J., & Surjan, B. S.
- Affiliations
- Punjab Engineering College (IN)
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- IEEE Access
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- 2020
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- 8
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- 22281-22302
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- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Electrical and Electronic Engineering › Multilevel Inverters and Converters
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Electrical and Electronic Engineering › HVDC Systems and Fault Protection
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Electrical and Electronic Engineering › Silicon Carbide Semiconductor Technologies
- Keywords
- multilevel inverter, reduced switch count, inverter topology, power semiconductor devices, gate driver, isolated DC sources, passive components, total standing voltage, high power applications
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