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http://dx.doi.org/10.11142/jicems.2012.1.4.448

A Cascaded Multilevel Inverter Using Bidirectional H-bridge Modules  

Kang, Feel-Soon (Dept. of Electronic and Control Engineering, Hanbat National University)
Joung, Yeun-Ho (Dept. of Electronic and Control Engineering, Hanbat National University)
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Journal of international Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems / v.1, no.4, 2012 , pp. 448-456 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper presents a multilevel inverter configuration which is designed by insertion of a bidirectional switch between capacitive voltage sources and a conventional H-bridge module. The modified inverter can produce a better sinusoidal waveform by increasing the number of output voltage levels. By serial connection of two modified H-bridge modules, it is possible to produce 9 output voltage levels including zero. There are 24 basic switching patterns with the 9 output voltage levels. Among the patterns, we select the 2 most efficient switching patterns to get a lower switching loss and minimum dv/dt stress. We then analyze characteristics of Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) of the output voltage with variation of input voltage by computer-aided simulations and experiments.
Keywords
Bidirectional switch; Inverters; Multilevel systems; Total harmonic distortion (THD); H-bridge module;
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