A New 13-Level Switched-Capacitor Inverter with Reduced Device Count

Abstract This paper proposed a new voltage-boosting 13-level switched-capacitor (SC) cost-effective inverter. The topology comprises fourteen transistors, three capacitors and single DC source to produce staircase waveform. capacitor voltage balancing problem is inherently solved by the series/parallel technique. Structural description, working principle, calculation of optimum values capacitance modulation scheme are briefly described. comparative analyses with existing SC multilevel inverter (MLI) in terms gain, blocking voltage, total standing (TSV), component per level factor cost function illustrate merits topology. Further, simulation experimental results at different loading conditions verify feasibility