• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2011.10a
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• pp.419-422
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• 2011

In this paper a dual-input self-powered power management system is proposed for low-power applications. The system is powered by merging the energy from a PZT vibration element and a solar cell. The proposed system consists of a charge pump for increasing the output voltage of a solar cell, a rectifier for DC conversion of the PZT output and a power management circuit for merging and managing the harvested energy. The performance of the design circuit has been verified through extensive simulation using a 0.18um CMOS technology. The chip area is $295um{\times}275um$.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.17 no.7
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• pp.1660-1671
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• 2013

In this paper two types of power management circuits for solar energy harvesting self-powered systems are proposed. First, if the output voltage of a solar cell is enough to drive load, a power management unit(PMU) directly supplies load with solar energy. Second, if a solar cell outputs very low voltage less than 0.5V as in miniature solar cells or monolithic integrated solar cells such that it cannot directly power the load, a voltage booster is employed to step up the solar cell's output voltage, and then PMU delivers the boosted voltage to the load. The proposed power management systems are designed and fabricated in a $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS process, and their performances are compared and analyzed through measurements.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.495-502
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• 2020

In this paper, a power management circuit was designed to drive the emergency lighting LED in the underground facility for public utilities using magnetic energy harvest. The magnetic energy harvest consists of a harvest elements and power management circuits. The proposed circuit was made of a rectifier, a battery charging circuit, and an LED driving circuit. In normal times, the battery is charged with the harvested power, and in the event of an emergency, the energy stored in the battery is used to drive the LED. As a result of the measurement, it took two minutes to charge the 47 mF capacitor. This is the amount of power that can drive an LED for emergency lighting for about three and a half minutes. Through this, it was confirmed that the power management circuit for magnetic energy harvest proposed in this paper can be used as an emergency lighting LED-driven power device in an underground facility for public utilities where it is difficult to draw separate power.

• Journal of the Microelectronics and Packaging Society
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.63-69
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• 2017

This paper presents a highly efficient power management system for UAV-drones. For free from the battery cell-balancing issue, the proposed system allows the drone to utilize a single-cell Li-Po battery. To realize low-voltage input of 3.7V, the switch-mode step-up DC-DC converter is optimally designed with high power efficiency. The prototype DC-DC converter was implemented with an output voltage of 5V, which will be provided to digital parts of the drone. The power efficiency was measured to be max. 91.3% with low surface temperature. The measured line and load regulations were 0.02V/V and 0.15V/A, respectively. Thanks to the proposed power management system, the available time-to-fly of the drone is expected to be significantly extended in virtue of the enhanced power efficiency.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics D
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• v.36D no.2
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• pp.71-80
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• 1999

In this paper, a power MOSFET driver with protection circuits is designed using a 2${\mu}m$ high-voltage CMOS process. For stable operations of control circuits a power managing circuit is designed, and a voltage-detecting short-circuit protection(VDSCP) is proposed to protect a voltage regulator in the power control circuit. The proposed VDSCP scheme eliminates voltage drop caused by a series resistor, and turns off output current under short-circuit state. To protect a power MOSFET, a short-load protection, a gate-voltage limiter, and an over-voltage protection circuit are also designed A high voltage 2 ${\mu}m$ technology provides the breakdown voltage of 50 V. The driver consumes the power of 20 ~ 100 mW along its operation state excluding the power of the power MOSFET. The active area of the power MOSFET driver occupies $3.5 {\times}2..8mm^2$.

• The Magazine of the IEIE
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• v.37 no.8
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• pp.41-49
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• 2010

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2012.11a
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• pp.40-41
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• 2012

친환경 에너지가 이슈가 되면서 버려지는 에너지를 유용하게 사용하는 에너지 수확기술에 대한 연구가 진행되고 있다. 특히 밀도가 낮은 에너지를 수집하여 저장하는 장치에 대한 연구가 활발하다. 하지만 대부분의 전원관리 회로가 수동적인 회로로 이루어져 있어 여러 상황에 대처하기에는 부족함이 있다. 본 논문은 저전력 마이크로프로세서를 이용하여 계속적으로 배터리 대용의 대용량 캐패시터의 전압을 점검, 관리하는 시스템을 제안하고자 한다. 이를 통하여 변화하는 환경에 맞추어 캐패시터의 전압 수준을 효과적으로 제어할 수 있을 것으로 예상한다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.17 no.11
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• pp.2627-2635
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• 2013

In this paper micro-scale solar energy harvesting system with a new MPPT control are proposed. In conventional solar energy harvesting systems, continuous perturbation techniques of the clock frequency or duty cycle of a power converter have been used to implement MPPT(Maximum Power Point Tracking) control. In this paper, we propose a new MPPT technique to control the duty cycle of a power switch powering a power converter. The proposed circuit is designed in $0.35{\mu}m$ CMOS process, and the designed chip area including pads is $770{\mu}m{\times}800{\mu}m$.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2015.11a
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• pp.203-204
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• 2015

본 논문은 척추 건강관리기의 구동을 위한 가변형 전원 공급장치에 관한 논문이다. 본 시스템은 의료용 및 척추 마사지를 위한 장비로서 인체에 접촉하는 경우가 많고 높은 안전성을 요구하기 때문에 안정적인 전원 공급이 필요한 시스템이다. 본 시스템을 구동하기 위해서 100W의 전원이 필요하여 비교적 간단하고 절연타입의 Forward Type의 토폴로지를 적용하여 시스템에서 요구하는 전원을 공급하도록 회로를 설계 하였으며, 이를 시스템에 적용하여 성능을 검증하였다.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.174-179
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• 2018

In this paper, design of high-efficiency DC-DC converter is presented for low-power PMIC (power management integrated circuit). As PMIC technologies for IoT and wearable devices have been continuously improved, high-efficiency energy harvesting schemes should be essential. Since the supply voltage resulting from energy harvesting is low and widely variable, design techniques to achieve high efficiency over a wide input voltage range are required. To obtain a constant switching frequency for wide input voltage range, frequency compensation circuit using supply-voltage variation sensing circuit is included. In order to obtain high efficiency performance at very low-power condition, accurate burst-mode control circuit was adopted to control switching operations. In the proposed DC-DC buck converter, output voltage is set to be 0.9V at the input voltage of 0.95~3.3V and maximum measured efficiency is up to 78% for the load current of 180uA.