Power sharing improvement in cascaded multilevel inverters

Several switching strategies have been developed to overcome the unbalanced working period and power sharing in cascaded multilevel inverters, but the power sharing problem is remained unsolved yet. In this paper, a novel switching method which equalizes the modules' power sharing is presented.

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