This document discusses techniques to reduce common mode voltage in diode clamped multilevel inverters using sinusoidal pulse width modulation. It presents simulation results comparing phase disposition, phase opposition disposition, and alternative phase opposition disposition SPWM methods in 3-level, 5-level, 7-level and 9-level inverters. The zero common mode SPWM technique is also analyzed, showing it can eliminate common mode voltage. Simulation results show that higher level inverters and carrier disposition techniques like alternative phase opposition disposition more effectively reduce common mode voltage and total harmonic distortion.