A new ZVS imbricated cell multilevel inverter with auxiliary resonant commutated poles

The authors present a new ZVS high-power converter based on the imbricated cells multilevel converter topology. The auxiliary resonant commutated pole (ARCP) technique, widely discussed in the literature, was chosen. It is interesting because of its overall design and its high efficiency. Moreover, this technique is particularly well adapted to multicell converters. Simulation and experimental results demonstrate the feasibility of such a structure. A measurement of the efficiency is made by the opposition method.