• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2006.04b
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• pp.261-263
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• 2006

A new soft switched active snubber circuit is proposed to achieve zero voltage and zero current switching for all the switching devices in PWM DC-DC converters. The unique location of the snubber and inductor ensures low current/voltage stresses and commutation losses. With a saturable reactor, the conduction loss of auxiliary switch could be further minimized. A boost converter adopting this technique is presented as an example, to illuminate its operation principles and derive the design procedures. Simulation and hardware implementation have been made to validate its performance. Some other basic PWM DC-DC topologies using the proposed snubber have also been given.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers B
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• v.55 no.10
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• pp.534-539
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• 2006

An integrated inductor using the low-temperature co-fired ceramics(LTCC) technology for low-power electronics was fabricated. In the inductor NiZn ferrite sheet$({\mu}_r=230)$, was embedded to increase inductance. The inductor has Ag spiral coil with 14 turns$(7turns{\times}2layers)$, a dimension of 0.6mm in width, 10um in thickness, and 0.15mm pitch. To evaluate the inductance, including the parasitic resistance, the fabricated inductor was calculated and measured. It was confirmed that calculated values were very close to the measured values. Finally as an application of the LTCC integrated inductor to low power electronic circuits, a LTCC boost DC/DC converter with 1W output power and up to 0.5MHz switching frequency using the inductor fabricated was developed.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2014.07a
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• pp.423-424
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 배터리 충 방전을 위한 새로운 고승압 양방향 DC-DC 컨버터를 제안한다. 제안 회로는 하나의 회로로 양방향 스위치가 가능하게 하였다. 기존 DC-DC 컨버터는 고주파 스위칭 동작 시 손실분 저항의 증가로 승압이 어려운 문제점이 있다. 이를 위해 기존 Boost converter 회로 방식보다 승압비가 높은 회로를 제안하였다. 그리고 기존 충전회로는 10배 이상의 입 출력 강압변환 시, 낮은 duty cycle로 소자 스트레스가 높아 고 사양의 소자를 사용해야 했다. 제안회로는 충전 시, Buck converter 동작을 하면서 기존 duty cycle 보다 3배가량 높아 소자 스트레스를 줄였다. 이를 모의실험 및 실험을 통해 타당성을 검증하였다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1993.07b
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• pp.850-852
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• 1993

A buck-boost zero current switched(ZCS) series resonant AC to DC converter for the DC output voltage regulation together with high power factor is proposed. A dynamic model for this AC to DC converter is developed and an analysis for the internal operational characteristics is explored. With the proposed control technique, the unity power factor and the DC output voltage regulation without a current overshoot can be obtained.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.44-45
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• 2011

Research on photovoltaic (PV) generation is taking a lot of attention due to its infinity and environment-friendliness with decrease of price per PV cell. While central inverters connect group of PV modules to utility grid in which maximum power point tracking (MPPT) for each module is difficult, micro inverter is attached on each module so that MPPT for individual modules can be easily achieved. Moreover, energy generation and consumption efficiency can be much improved by employing direct current (DC) distribution system. In this paper, a digitally controlled PV micro converter interfacing PV to DC distribution system is proposed. Boundary conduction mode (BCM) is utilized to achieve zero voltage switching (ZVS) of active switch and eliminate reverse recovery problem of passive switch. A 120W prototype boost PV micro converter is implemented to verify the feasibility and experimental results show higher than 98% efficiency at peak power and 97.29% of European efficiency.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1998.11a
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• pp.121-124
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• 1998

Front end AC to DC converters of the boost type are used in traction applications for generating the DC link for the inverters. A GTO based converter is usually switched with a switching frequency of 300 to 500Hz, resulting in low frequency harmonic problems. In order to avoid this, multiple converters with Phase shifted carrier waveforms are used to suppress the low frequency harmonics. A detailed study of an AC to DC converter, with two converters parallely operated with Phase shifted carrier wave farms is Presented in this paper.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2019.07a
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• pp.153-155
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• 2019

This paper proposes a two-phase interleaved bridgeless single-stage ac-dc converter with magnetic integration that can achieve CCM power factor correction without input current sensing. All switches achieve ZVS turn-on and all diodes achieve ZCS turn-on for the whole grid cycle. SDAB-based modulation strategy is applied which results in simple power control and wide range output voltage. A flux cancellation method to integrate the interleaved transformer is firstly proposed in this paper to reduce the core size and loss. Experimental results on a 1.7-kW, 50kHz prototype are given to verify the principle and advantages of the proposed ac-dc converter.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.397-399
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• 2008

본 논문은 대용량에 적합한 새로운 DC/DC 컨버터에 관한 것으로써, PFM-SBC(Series-Boost Capacitor) 풀 브리지 컨버터를 제안한다. 제안된 회로는 스위칭 주파수에 따라 직렬 부스트 캐패시터의 전압을 증감하여 출력전압을 제어하는 방식이며, 50% 고정 시비율로 구동하기 때문에 기존 위상천이 풀 브리지 회로에 존재하는 환류 구간이 발생하지 않는다. 또한 넓은 부하 영역에 대해 영전압-스위칭이 보장되므로 효율 및 발열 특성이 우수하며, 출력 인덕터 전류 리플이 작은 장점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 기존 컨버터들의 특성을 분석하고, 제안된 회로의 이론적 해석 및 PSIM 모의실험을 수행하며, 이를 실제로 1.2KW급 서버용 전원장치 프로토 타입 제작을 통하여 제안된 SBC 풀 브리지 컨버터의 타당성을 검증한다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.23 no.5
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• pp.88-95
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• 2009

This paper is the research on the development of power conversion system for the fuel cell. In composing the DC/DC converters which have high boost voltage ratio, unlike the conventional method a new multi DC/DC converter system is proposed that the diode and the condenser and the reactor can be reduced by connecting the secondary side output of the transformer. In this system the rectifier part and the filter part of the secondary side in the power transformer that is connecting in series are composed into a single module, which is the strong advantage and the number of level can be easily increased. A new variable shift phase switching method is also suggested that it makes possible to reduce the output voltage ripples in the proposed system. All the factors mentioned above have been verified through simulations and experiments, and the proposed converter is considered very useful in the demanded load which requires a wide of the output.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2005.07a
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• pp.292-294
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• 2005

A new zero voltage switching (ZVS) 2-transformer boost converter is proposed in this paper. The proposed converter has the advantage that the magnetizing inductor of the transformer acts for the boost inductor without additional inductor. Moreover, ZVS of main switches and auxiliary switches can be achieved, and the switch turn-off surge problem of conventional isolated boost converter is effectively solved. The operational principle, DC voltage gain, and ZVS characteristics are analyzed. To confirm the validity of the proposed converter, simulation results with 200w, 24Vdc/200Vdc specification are presented.