Research Article

Switched Capacitor Based High Step-Up Multilevel Inverter with Self-Balancing Ability and Low Switching Stress

Table 4

. Comparison results between existing topologies and the proposed topology.

MLISwitchesDC sourcesCapacitorsSelf-balancingBoosting abilityH-Bridge circuitPIVTSV

[16]24112NoNoNoVDC24VDC
[17]3667Yes2 timesYes6VDC36VDC
[18]1660No2 timesYes6VDC41VDC
[19]820No2 timesNo3VDC32VDC
[20]933No2 timesNo6VDC20VDC
[21]1860NoNoNo2VDC45VDC
[22]1040No2 timesNo5VDC28VDC
[13]2216No5 timesYes6VDC48VDC
[14]1222Yes2 timesYes3VDC21VDC
Proposed thirteen-level boost inverter2915Yes5 timesNoVDC29VDC