• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.233-241
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• 2012

This paper presents a design of a 30kW 250V/530V bidirectional DC-DC converter to be used in an electrical car. A detailed explanation of the design is given. The system uses two phase shifted half bridge (boost and buck) topologies to reduce the ripple current in the output capacitor. The converter has an efficiency of 95% at nominal power. It works as a constant voltage in one direction and as a constant current in the other to charge the batteries. Simulations and measurement are done at high power to test the efficiency.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2009.04b
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• pp.209-211
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 고효율 DC-DC 컨버터와 인버터에 의한 연료전지발전용 전력변환기를 제안한다. 제안하는 전력변환기는 Boost Converter와 LLC공진 컨버터의 2 stage 조합으로 구성되어 있다. 제안하는 전력변환기의 동작을 분석하기 위해 PSCAD/EMTDC를 이용하여 연료전지의 출력 동특성을 나타내는 모델과 제안하는 전력변환기의 모델을 개발하였다. 시뮬레이션모델의 검증을 위해 하드웨어장치를 구성하여 실험을 실시하였다. 제안하는 전력변환기는 정격출력에서 저전압특성을 갖는 연료전지를 전력계통에 고효율로 연계하는데 유용할 것으로 보인다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2005.07b
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• pp.1435-1437
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• 2005

An integrated inductor using the low temperature cofiring ceramics(LTCC) NiZnAg was fabricated. The inductor has a sandwitch structure, which consists of 18 turns-and-thin Ag rectangular spiral coils in 2-layers(10-turn & 8-turn in each layer). The two layers of Ag coils are among three thick Ni-Zn ferrite so the inductor has a dimension of 12.70mm$\times$12.70mm and 0.32mm thick. For the fabricated inductor, calculation method of inductance was given and it is confirmed that the calculated value is very close to the measured one. Finally as an application of the LTCC integrated inductor for low power electronic circuits, a LTCC boost DC/DC converter with 1W output power and 500KHz switching frequency using the inductor fabricated was developed. For the converter the maximum efficiency of about 87% was obtained.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.45-53
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• 2013

Fuel cell power system is one of the most promising energy source for the alternative energy because it has unique advantages such as high energy density, no power drop during operation, and feasible to make compact size. However, due to very low response time, fuel cell is difficult to correspond to drastic load changes and start-up operation. For solving these problem, fuel cell power system must include energy storage device such as Li-Poly battery or super capacitor. Therefore, bi-directional DC-DC converter must be required for this storage device and fuel cell-PCS control. This paper presents a design and modeling of the bi-directional DC/DC converter. Firstly, we present modeling the boost and buck mode of the bi-directional converter through both PWM switch model and state space averaging technique. Secondly, in order to minimize output ripple and transient response overshoot, we have two identical DC-DC converters interleaved and adopt two-loop voltage-current controller. The proposed bi-directional DC-DC converter's modeling method and control design have been verified with computer simulation and experimentation.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.188-193
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• 2011

A highly efficient AC-DC converter for small wind power generation systems using a brushless DC generator (BLDCG) is presented in this paper. The market standard AC-DC converter for a BLDCG consists of a three-phase diode rectifier and a boost DC-DC converter, which has an IGBT and a fast recovery diode (FRD). This kind of two-stage solution basically suffers from a large amount of conduction loss and the efficiency greatly decreases under a light load, or at a low current, because of the switching devices with a P-N junction. In order to overcome this low efficiency, especially at a low current, a three-phase bridgcless converter consisting of three upper side FRDs and three lower side Super Junction FETs is presented. In the overall operating speed region, including the cut-in speed, the efficiency of the proposed converter is improved by up to 99%. Such a remarkable result is validated and compared with conventional solutions by calculating the power loss based on I-V curves and the switching loss data of the adopted commercial switches and the current waveforms obtained through PSIM simulations.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1994.07a
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• pp.512-515
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• 1994

This paper propose the high power factor and efficiency buck-boost AC-DC converter because the input current is made sinusoidal wave in single phase alternating current source. The proposed converter is able to minimize switching loss by the partial resonant switching which is for switching devices to operate the zero voltage switching (ZVS) or zero current switching(ZCS) without increasing their voltage and current stresses.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.26-33
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 PWM ac-dc 컨버터의 출력직류전압 안정화를 위한 새로운 방식의 입력전류 제어기법에 대해 기술하였다. 제안한 방식의 전류제어 기법은 히스테리시스 전류제어기가 갖는 장점을 모드 갖고 있을 뿐 아니라 스위칭 손실도 최소화되는 특성을 갖는다. 기존의 히스테리시스 전류제어기와 다른 점은 PWM 컨버터 각 상 입력전류의 반주기 내에 1/3구간에서는 컨버터의 스위칭 소자가 PWM에 의한 스위칭이 이루어지지 않는다는 것이다. 더군다나 입력전류의 피크값 근처에서 스위칭이 발생하지 않으므로 한 주기 평균 스위칭 손실을 최소로 할 수 있다는 것이 특징이다. 이러한 동작 원리에 대한 설명과 제안한 방식의 특성을 해석하였으며 실험을 통하여 그 효용성을 입증하였다.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.99-103
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• 2003

Recently, a fuel cell with low voltage and high current of electronic output characteristics is remarkable for new generation system. It needs both a dc-dc boost converter and do-ac inverter to be used in domestic power. Therefore, this paper presents do-dc boost converter with ZVS for fuel cell generation system This topology has several advantages, which are ZVS characteristics of all of main and auxiliary switches, reduction of reactor component size because of high frequency switching, and low rated voltage stress of the switches. In this paper, theoretical analysis, operation principle, and design procedures are presented. And simulation results from Pspice are presented to validate the theoretical analysis.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.315-322
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• 2009

In the conventional boost converter, the actual duty cycle is limited as the output voltage increases due to increased voltage and current stress of the switch and diode and voltage surge caused by diode reverse recovery. In this paper a new non-isolated boost converter suitable for high gain applications is proposed. The proposed converter has voltage gain of around 6 when the duty cycle is 0.5. Since ZVS is achieved under CCM, the proposed converter has wide ZVS range. Also, voltage ratings of switch and diode are the same as one third of output voltage, and ratings of input and output passive components are reduced due to the interleaving. In addition voltage surge caused by diode reverse recovery is negligible due to ZCS turn-off of diodes. Operating principle of the proposed converter is described and validated through theoretical analysis, simulation and experiment.

• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.99-105
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• 2019

OBC for battery charging of electric vehicles mainly consist of two stages including PFC circuit and isolated DC-DC converter circuit. In general, a non-isolated boost converter is used as the PFC circuit, and a resonant converter capable of ZVS (zero voltage switching) is used as the isolated DC-DC converter. In this paper, we propose an OBC composed of isolated current-fed type PFC circuit and buck DC-DC converter. The proposed OBC is easy to configure the circuit and controller, and can cope with a wide output range. In order to verify the validity of the proposed circuit, a prototype 3.3 ㎾ class prototype was fabricated. As a result, the maximum efficiency and the maximum power factor of 99.2% were confirmed under the operational stability and rated load conditions at the output voltage of 150V ~ 400V.