Flying capacitor multilevel inverters with novel PWM method

Flying capacitor multilevel inverters are increasingly used in industry applications. In order to improve the harmonic performance of the output voltage under low modulation index region, the paper presents a novel PWM method for flying capacitor multilevel inverters based on the idea of controlling freedom degree. The novel PWM method can balance the flying capacitor voltage in a certain period. The validity of the novel PWM method is demonstratedby the experimental results.