Self-Balanced Switched-Capacitor Thirteen-Level Inverters With Reduced Capacitors Count.

This letter describes two improved 13-level inverters based on switched-capacitor. Compared with their original structure, which is published recently, one less high-voltage capacitor is required in the proposed inverters and the blocking voltage of their inverting half-bridge is reduced by half. In addition, the new inverters inherit various advantages of the original structure, such as a high boost factor of 6, self-balanced capacitor voltages, and reduced voltage ripples. Circuit description, operation principle, hybrid PWM modulation, and capacitor voltage ripples are analyzed and the feasibility of the proposed inverters is finally verified by experimental results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]