Multilevel inverters: a survey of topologies, controls, and applications

By José Raúl Rodríguez Rodríguez, Jih-Sheng (Jason) Lai, Fang Z. Peng. IEEE transactions on industrial electronics (1982. Print), 2002

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Control and Circuit Techniques to Mitigate Partial Shading Effects in Photovoltaic Arrays (2012, background): “Multilevel diode-clamped converters have a slightly modified centralized architecture [45], [68]–[71].”
Interfacing Renewable Energy Sources to the Utility Grid Using a Three-Level Inverter (2006, background): “switches, good harmonic spectrum (making possible the use of smaller and less expensive filters), and good dynamic response [7].”
Elimination of harmonics in multilevel inverters with non-equal DC sources using PSO (2008, background): “Some of the fundamental multilevel topologies include the diode-clamped, flying capacitor, and cascaded H-bridge structures [2].”
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Detailed and Averaged Models for a 401-Level MMC–HVDC System (2012, background): “oped for industrial medium-voltage (MV) applications are the cascaded multilevel and the hybrid multilevel converters [7].”
Emerging Energy-Efficient Technologies for Hybrid Electric Vehicles (2007, neutral): “826 Proceedings of the IEEE |V ol. 95, No. 4, April 2007 high-frequency pulsewidth-modulation (PWM) multilevel inverters, and the fundamental-frequency multilevel inverters [ 51 ], [52].”
Control of a Single-Phase Cascaded H-Bridge Multilevel Inverter for Grid-Connected Photovoltaic Systems (2009, background): “These converter topologies can generate high-quality voltage waveforms with power semiconductor switches operating at a frequency near the fundamental [6].”
Five-Level Diode Clamped Inverter to EliminateCommon Mode Voltage and Reduce $dv/dt$ inMedium Voltage Rating Induction Motor Drives (2008, background): “diode clamped, flying capacitor, and cascaded H bridges with separate dc source multilevel inverter [27].”
Multilevel Multiphase Space Vector PWM Algorithm (2008, neutral): “In most common multilevel topologies such as flying capacitor, diode-clamped, cascaded full-bridge or hybrid converters, the output level of every phase Vs is an integer multiple of a fixed voltage step Vdc [9], [33]”
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