The cascaded multilevel inverters (MLIs) are suitable topologies when a high number of voltage levels needed. Nonetheless, possess the main drawback power switches and gate drivers that make sophisticated control, reducing efficiency, increasing cost. This article proposes new fundamental switched-diode topology is capable generating five positive-voltage with only three switches, diodes, dc so...

Renewable energy sources, especially solar photovoltaic systems (PV) are gaining popularity as the demand for electrical energy is increasing day by day. They can act as a voltage source feeding the power circuit. This work aims in utilising the PV system as a voltage source for a cascaded five level inverter. Further the performance of the PV panel fed cascaded multilevel inverter is analysed ...

Selective Harmonics Elimination is a high-efficiency modulation method for multilevel inverters that allows handling very high voltage applications. It eliminates the most significant harmonics and fixes desired fundamental component. The main issue of these techniques complex process to obtain appropriate switching-angles, being necessary calculate them offline, meaning if some disturbances oc...