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11-level Cascaded H-bridge Grid-tied Inverter Interface with Solar Panels Faete Filho, Yue Cao, Leon M. Tolbert Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department The University of Tennessee Knoxville, TN 37996-2100, USA Abstract—This paper presents a single-phase 11-level (5 H- II. MULTILEVEL INVERTER AND PV INTERFACE bridges) cascade multilevel DC-AC grid-tied inverter. Each An overview of the system is shown in Fig. 1. The core inverter bridge is connected to a 200 W solar panel. OPAL-RT lab was used as the hardware in the loop (HIL) real-time control component of this inverter design is the four-switch system platform where a Maximum Power Point Tracking combination shown in Fig. 1. By connecting the DC source to (MPPT) algorithm was implemented based on the inverter the AC output by different combinations of the four switches, output power to assure optimal operation of the inverter when Q11, Q12, Q13, and Q14, three different voltage output levels connected to the power grid as well as a Phase Locked Loop can be generated for each DC source, +Vdc, 0, and -Vdc. A (PLL) for phase and frequency match. A novel SPWM scheme is cascade inverter with N input sources will provide (2N+1) proposed in this paper to be used with the solar panels that can levels to synthesize the AC output w