• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.206-211
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• 2005

Conventional switched capacitor converters have an inherent drawback that their efficiency decreases as the output current increases. This inherent drawback is due to a periodical forced charging and discharging operation in the internal switched capacitors accompanied by a large capacitor current. Their efficiency can not be increased by decreasing its internal resistance. As a result, conventional switched capacitor converters have been limited to uses with a very small output current. To solve this problem we presented a novel switched capacitor converter topology that uses a resonant operation instead of the forced charging and discharging operation. Its advantage over a conventional switched capacitor converter is higher efficiency even in a high output current region. In this paper, the operation analysis and steady-state characteristics are described in detail for a half buck type switched capacitor converter, and they are confirmed by experimentation.

• 전기학회논문지P
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• 제59권4호
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• pp.372-376
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• 2010

Electrolytic capacitors have been widely used in power electronics system because of the features of large capacitance, small size, high-voltage, and low-cost. Electrolytic capacitors, which is most of the time affected by aging effect, plays a very important role for the power electronics system quality and reliability. Therefore it is important to estimate the parameter of an electrolytic capacitor to predict the failure. The estimation of the equivalent series resistance(ESR) is important parameter in life condition monitoring of electrolytic capacitor. This paper proposes a simple technique to measure the ESR of an electrolytic capacitor. This method uses a switching DC/DC boost converter to measure the DC Bus capacitor ESR of power converter. Main advantage of the proposed method is very simple in technique, consumes very little time and requires only simple instruments. Simulation results are shown to verify the performance of the proposed method.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2013년도 제45회 하계 정기학술대회 초록집
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• pp.157.1-157.1
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• 2013

외부 Ballast Capacitor를 이용한 Voltage Doubler 전원장치를 이용하여 Micro size의 대기압 플라즈마를 발생장치를 개발하였다. 2개의 외부 Capacitor를 병렬로 연결하여 충전한 다음 외부 Capacitor를 직렬로 연결하여 전압을 2배압 시킨 상태에서 방전이 일어나도록 하였다. Capacitor의 충 방전 제어는 Switch Device인 Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT)를 사용하였다. 개발된 대기압 플라즈마는 외부 Capacitor와 인가전압을 독립적으로 변화시킬 수 있기 때문에 방전 시 전류 전압을 독립적으로 제어할 수 있으며 용도에 따라 Glow 방전에서 Arc 방전까지 제어가 가능하다. 본 연구에서는 900 V의 1.22 nF 외부 Capacitor 방전과 400 V의 10 nF 외부 Capacitor 방전을 비교하였다. 방전 시 전압파형과 전류파형은 서로 다르지만 소비된 방전에너지는 340 ${\mu}J$로 동일하다. ICCD camera와 Spectrometer를 이용하여 비교 분석을 실시하였다. 방전 image 및 Optical Emission Spectroscopy 분석을 이용하여 플라즈마의 온도, 밀도 등을 시간적, 공간적으로 분석하였다.

• 한국자기학회지
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• 제5권5호
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• pp.828-832
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• 1995

This paper describes the efficient design, analysis method and experimental verification of capacitor discharge impulse magnetizer system. A capacitor discharge magnetizer system is used to produce a high current impulse of short duration in this magnetizing fixture. The parasitic resistance and parasitic inductance of the capacitor discharge impulse magnetizer system have been estimated using known air-core test coil. Finite element analysis (using MAXWELL 2-D field simulator) and magnetizing circuit analysis (using SPICE) are also used as part of the design and analysis process of the capacitor discharge impulse magnetizer system. Application study for a magnetizing fixture design is shown. 8-pole magnetizing fixture has been designed and analyzed using finite element analysis. The fixture design for 8-pole magnet are presented along with the experimental results. The experimental results have been achieved using a high-voltage, high-energy capacitor discharge impulse magnetizer and 8-pole iron core fixtures (charging voltage : 2000[V], capacitor bank : 4000[$\mu\textrm{F}$]).

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제27권4호
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• pp.291-296
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• 2022

Capacitor is one of the reliability-critical components in power converters. The lifetime of the capacitor decreases as the operating temperature increases, and power losses caused by capacitor current are the main cause of the capacitor temperature increase. Therefore, various studies are being conducted to improve the lifetime of the capacitor by reducing the current of DC-link capacitors. In this study, pulse width modulation methods proposed for improving the lifetime of DC-link capacitors of the three-level NPC inverter are comparatively analyzed. The lifetime evaluation of the DC-link capacitor under different modulation methods is performed at component level first and then system level by considering all capacitors by applying Monte Carlo simulation. Furthermore, their effects on the efficiency and THD of the output current are also considered.

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 1999년도 전력전자학술대회 논문집
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• pp.243-247
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• 1999

An electrolytic capacitor is widely used in a motor drive system. Therefore, the deterioration diagnosis of an electrolytic capacitor is needed of preventive maintenance of the system. In this paper, we propose a new diagnosis method for the electrolytic capacitor by using the system identification method, which presents the information about the capacitor's interna parameters in on-line operation an use fuzzy algorithm for the deterioration decision. We demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme by using computer simulation.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2010년도 하계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.71-71
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• 2010

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2010년도 하계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.21-21
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• 2010

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2008년도 추계종합학술대회 B
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• pp.640-643
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• 2008

In this work, a novel tunable MIM capacitor with the meshed electrode is proposed first in order to improve the tunability characteristics using fringe fields. The capacitors were fabricated on a low-resistivity Si substrate employing lead zinc niobate (PZN) thin film dielectric. The fabricated capacitor with the meshed electrode, whose line width and spacing was $2.5{\mu}m$, achieved the effective capacitance tunability of 31 % that is higher value of 18.5 % than that of the conventional capacitor with the rectangular-type electrode.

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 1998년도 Proceedings ICPE 98 1998 International Conference on Power Electronics
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• pp.197-200
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• 1998

Three switched-capacitor(SC) networks are presented including series-parallel capacitor set, reversed-switched-capacitor network and push-pull switched-capacitor network, the performances of which are discussed. Combining the SC networks with traditional DC-DC converters, we form several new topologies. Experiment and analyzed results show that the behavior of a DC-DC converter with large voltage ratio can be improved. A wider voltage conversion range is also obtained.