학술논문

Common Ground Buck Type Five-Level Transformerless Inverter With Less Stress
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. II Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, IEEE Transactions on. 71(4):2419-2423 Apr, 2024
Subject
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Switches
Insulated gate bipolar transistors
Capacitors
Inverters
Stress
Voltage
Pulse width modulation
Switched-capacitor based transformerless inverter (SC TLI)
switched-capacitor
self-balance
reduced switch count
pulse width modulation (LS-PWM)
Language
ISSN
1549-7747
1558-3791
Abstract
The presented brief introduces a new switched capacitor-based transformer-less inverter (SC TLI). This SC TLI configuration is based on a reduced switch count employing only six switches, one of which is a bidirectional switch. It uses only one power source and two SCs to obtain a five-level output voltage. A level shift pulse width modulation (LS-PWM) based simple logic circuit controls SC TLI. It also handles capacitor charging and discharging during operation for each fundamental cycle. The SCs are self-balanced and do not require any specific controller. Further, detailed comparative studies are performed with existing arts of literature to determine the merits of the SC TLI. A prototype SC TLI model is made in the laboratory. The experimental results from the laboratory prototype validate the feasibility of the SC TLI. The voltage, current stress, and junction temperature across the power component are analyzed for the SC TLI design. Finally, this SC TLI performance characteristic is presented for different loading conditions.