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Table 5.4 A Comparison Between Characteristics of the Hybrid
Topologies
Topology in single
phase #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6
Number of N − 1 N − 1 N − 1 N − 3 N − 1 (5N − 3)/6
semiconductor switches
in the level generation
part versus output
voltage levels (N)
Number of 2 V DC 1 2 V DC V DC
semiconductor
switches in the level
generation part that
are in the current path
to produce maximum
output voltage versus
DC sources (V DC )
Maximum blocking 2 2 n.V DC (n − 1) V DC /2 2. V DC 3. V DC
voltage for switches in
level generation part

Figure 5.13 Number of switches in level generation part for single phase hybrid
multilevel inverters.