@article{scholars19661,
            note = {cited By 0},
            year = {2024},
         journal = {International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications},
          number = {6},
           title = {A novel extendable multilevel inverter for efficient energy conversion with fewer power components: Configuration and experimental validation},
          volume = {52},
             doi = {10.1002/cta.3910},
           pages = {2760--2785},
        keywords = {Bridge circuits; Electric inverters; Electric switches; Harmonic analysis; Power electronics; Power quality, DC supplies; Harmonic; Modulars; Multi Level Inverter (MLI); Multilevels; Near level control; Neutralpoint-clamped (NPC); Number of components; Power-electronics; Total standing voltage, Energy efficiency},
          author = {Meraj, S. T. and Yu, S. S. and Rahman, M. S. and Arefin, A. A. and Lipu, M. S. H. and Trinh, H.},
             url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85180238331&doi=10.1002\%2fcta.3910&partnerID=40&md5=0807e9f13943fa06898292943ce49868},
        abstract = {Multilevel inverters (MLIs) are widely used in various sectors of power electronics. Some major benefits of using MLI are the high-quality voltage output, harmonic reduction, and efficiency. However, MLIs also bear a range of disadvantages including an excessive number of components, high total standing voltage (TSV), and complicated control scheme. Thus, a novel cross-switched neutral point clamped (CSNPC) nine-level inverter is proposed. Many of the suggested MLIs use a large number of DC supplies and additional switches that are not fully utilized and generate high power loss. However, the proposed MLI topology has a smaller number of power electronic switches and DC supplies, leading to higher energy efficiency. Moreover, a simplified high frequency modulation technique, named hysteresis-band-based discontinuous pulse width modulation (DPWM) is devised to control the proposed MLI. This modulation scheme has effectively minimized capacitor voltage imbalance. Furthermore, the designed structure is extendable to a modular MLI, without any additional H-bridge circuit. To verify its benefits over other recent similar types of MLIs, a thorough comparison is presented for the number of components and power losses. The proposed MLI has showed 95.54 efficiency, and the modular CSNPC can achieve a total harmonic distortion (THD) of 6.43. {\^A}{\copyright} 2023 John Wiley \& Sons Ltd.}
}