• Journal of the Microelectronics and Packaging Society
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.59-64
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• 2008

Recently, DC-DC choppers must be increased switching frequency in order to achieve a small size, a light weight and a low noise. However, the switches of chopper are subjected to high switching power losses and switching stresses. As a result of these, the chopper system bring on a low power efficiency. To improved these, this paper is studied on a new DC-DC chopper of high efficiency operated with soft switching(that is, zero current switching and zero voltage switching, ZVCS), of semiconductor switches using in chopper. The soft switching operation is applied to a partial resonant method that the switches operate at zero current of inductor and zero voltage of capacitor in resonant circuit. And the partial resonant circuit makes use of a inductor using step-up and a snubber capacitor, the circuit topology of chopper is simple. Some simulative results on computer and experimental results confirm the validity of analytical results of the DC-DC chopper.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.82-88
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• 2009

This paper is analyzed for a step up-down DC/DC chopper of high efficiency added electric isolation. The converters of high efficiency are generally made that the power loss of the used semiconductor switching devices is minimized. To achieve high efficiency system, the proposed chopper is constructed by using a partial resonant circuit. The control switches using in the chopper are operated with soft switching by partial resonant method. The control switches are operated without increasing their voltage and current stresses by the soft switching technology. The result is that the switching loss is very low and the efficiency of the chopper is high. The proposed chopper is also added electric isolation which is used a pulse transformer. When the power conversion system is required electric isolation, the proposed chopper is adopted with the converter system development of high efficiency. The soft switching operation and the system efficiency of the proposed chopper are verified by digital simulation and experimental results.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.53 no.10
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• pp.27-33
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• 2016

This paper proposes a Low Noise Amplifier (LNA) with chopper stabilization technique with a sample-hold circuit. Chopper stabilization technique is effective in terms of reducing low frequency offset and flicker noise. Conventional chopper amplifier has a disadvantage in area because of using Low Pass Filter (LPF) for remove chopping spike. The proposed chopper amplifier employed sample and hold technique to decrease chopping spike instead of LPF that improves 36% in voltage damping and 11% in area.

• Journal of the Microelectronics and Packaging Society
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.19-25
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• 2008

In this paper, author proposes a novel step-up AC-DC chopper operated with power factor correction(PFC) and with high efficiency. The proposed chopper behaves with discontinuous current control(DCC) of input current. The input current waveform in the proposed chopper is got to be a discontinuous sinusoid form in proportion to magnitude of ac input voltage under the constant duty cycle switching. Therefore, the input power factor is nearly unity and the control method is simple. In the general DCC chopper, the switching devices are turned-on with the zero current switching, but turn-off of the switching devices is switched at current maximum value. To achieve a soft switching of the switching rum-off, the proposed chopper is used a new partial resonant circuit. The result is that the switching loss is very low and the efficiency of chopper is high.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.171-177
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• 2002

The Photovoltaic systems with solar cell way Provide electrical energy to the utility/consumers, which are becoming one of the promising energy substitutes. The photovoltaic system can be classified into two types : One is the stand-alone type, and the other utility interactive one. The latter can return the generated power to the utility, but the former can't. The utility interactive systems are so valuable for peak power cut in summer season. In the photovoltaic systems the maximum power point tracking (MPPT) has been studied for the increase of the generating energy of the photovoltaic system. There are many control methods of MPPT, but a new MPPT algorithm is proposed to overcome the disadvantages of the conventional ones, and as a result the proposed method enables to improve both tracking ability and generating efficiency of photo voltaic system without DC chopper.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2007.10c
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• pp.5-6
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• 2007

자기부상열차의 부상제어 및 마그네트의 전류 출력을 담당하는 마그네틱 드라이버(MDU)는 자기부상열차의 운전에 직접적인 영향을 미치며, 가장 안정적으로 운용되어야 할 시스템이다. 보다 안정적인 운전을 위해서는 Master와 Stand-by간의 상호 보완적인 감시시스템이 필요하며, 이것은 있을 수도 있는 사고를 미연에 방지할 중요한 목표이다. 이를 이루기 위해서는 부상제어기의 디지털/아나로그 회로에서부터 초퍼구성에 이르기까지 모든 부분에서 이중화가 고려되어야 하며, 특히 이중화 제어기는 상호감시라는 측면에서 접근하여, 고속으로 연산하는 제어기에서 이중화의 상대방 제어기의와의 연동이 필요하며, 초퍼의 이중화는 Hot-Backup의 관점에서 완전하게 독립된 두 개의 초퍼가 최소한의 불연속 제어요소를 가지고 절체되어야 하는 점이다. 이중화 마그네트 드라이브는 이러한 요소들을 만족시키며 최상의 안정성을 고려한 시스템이라 할 수 있으며 이후 실용화 단계에서 필요한 기술을 내포하고 있다.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2014.07a
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• pp.142-143
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 Buck type의 단상 AC/AC 초퍼를 이용한 단상 voltage sag compensator를 제안한다. 제안된 회로는 sag보상 동작 시 사용된 변압기의 누설리액턴스가 단상 PWM Buck AC/AC converter에 미치는 영향이 작아 동작효율이 높고, sag가 발생하지 않는 상태일 때 입력과 출력이 절연되는 장점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 제안된 회로의 동작 및 특성을 설명하고, 타당성을 입증하기 위해 PSIM으로 시뮬레이션 하였다.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2014.07a
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• pp.144-145
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 Buck type의 3상 AC/AC 초퍼를 이용한 3상 voltage sag compensator를 제안한다. 제안된 회로는 sag보상 동작 시 사용된 변압기의 누설리액턴스가 3상 PWM Buck AC/AC converter에 미치는 영향이 작아 동작효율이 높고, sag가 발생하지 않은 상태일 때 입력과 출력이 절연되는 장점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 제안된 회로의 동작 및 특성을 설명하고, 타당성을 입증하기 위해 PSIM으로 시뮬레이션 하였다.

• Railway Journal
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.63-69
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• 2016

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2002.07b
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• pp.1238-1240
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• 2002

고속전철의 새로운 제동개념인 와전류제어 제동방식에서는 출력 자화력의 제어를 위해서 전류제어 시스템이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 신개념의 전력제어 소자인 IGCT(Insulated Gate Commutated Thyristor)를 초퍼회로에 적용한 스너버회로가 없는 형태의 고속전철용 와전류 제어장치의 개발에 대하여 설명하였다. 회로의 성능을 파악하기 위하여 주회로 시뮬레이션을 실시하였으며 대상체인 부하 마그네트를 연결한 고전압 출력 시험을 통해 장치의 성능을 조사하였다.