Development of Novel Multilevel Inverter with Reduced Power Switches

In recent days the usage of multilevel inverters became very essential and crucial especially on high power consuming sites. The advantages on the modularity, failure management, reliability and the waveform with less harmonic distortion at the output made the multilevel inverter to gain more attention in the current industry. Even though, multilevel inverters serving the industry with more significant advantages however they do have drawbacks such the usage of high number of power switches in their circuit and this leads to high manufacturing cost and also increase the complexity of the circuit structure. In this paper a new 9 level multilevel inverter topology has been analyzed. The proposed topology has considered factors such as reducing the power switches, reducing the total harmonic distortion and reducing the complexity of the structure