Mixed Multicell Cascaded Multilevel Inverter

Multilevel converters are a very interesting alternative for medium and high power drives. Among these topologies the Multicell group present some advantages due to its modularity and scalability. This paper propose a new topology for Multilevel Multicell Inverters. This inverter is based on a new cell obtained from the the mixture of the two most popular multicell topologies, flying capacitor and cascaded multicell inverter. The new cell provide a high number of output levels, high modularity, low number of components and low losses. The results presented in this paper confirm that this new medium voltage inverter topology is able to reach high quality output voltages, allowing further advances in modulation techniques and other issues.