• 전기학회논문지
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• 제61권11호
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• pp.1625-1633
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• 2012

In the lighting industry, a Lighting Emitting Diode (LED) is increasingly used because of many advantages and a eco-friendly product comparing with the conventional lighting. However, the LED lighting has to include various AC/DC converters because the direct current is used for the LED lighting. Among a lot of power converters, the flyback converter is widely used for the LED lighting and includes some electrolytic capacitors for the voltage regulation. But the electrolytic capacitor has shorter lifetime than the LED element. It makes the expected life-time of the converter having the electrolytic capacitor shorter than the LED element. This paper proposes the single-stage PFC flyback converter without electrolytic capacitors. To verify the performance of the proposed converter, simulated and experimental works were carried out.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.366-373
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• 2011

펄스파워에서 주로 사용되는 자기스위치는 반복률, 신뢰성, 소자수명에서 우수한 특성을 가진다. 그러나 자기스위치는 현재 대부분 수동으로 조작하여 스위칭 동작을 최적화하고 있으며, 부하가 변동될 경우 스위칭 상태를 자동으로 최적화할 수 없다. 본 논문은 CCPS(capacitor charging power supply)를 이용한 고압펄스 압축용 전원장치의 펄스압축을 위해 사용되는 자기스위치(magnetic switch)의 자동제어 방법을 제안하였다. 자기스위치를 부하변동에 따라 자동으로 제어함으로써 시스템의 에너지 효율을 최적화 할 수 있다. 제안된 방법은 실험을 통하여 검증하였다.

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 2017년도 전력전자학술대회
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• pp.327-328
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• 2017

This paper presents the power supply system which is made of three units: the capacitor charging and main pulse unit, simmer power supply unit, and series trigger unit. The capacitor charging and main pulse unit charges the capacitor bank by using the series parallel resonant converter and the generated main pulses apply to the lamp. The series trigger unit ionize the xenon gas located in the lamp and the simmer power supply unit sustains the ionized condition. It means that the lamp lifetime and efficiency are advanced by reducing the number of triggering. Not only the operation of the proposed system but also the performance of each unit will be verified by the experimental results.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2017년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.510-511
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• 2017

본 논문에서는 현재 단수명 및 잔고장의 빈도가 높은 LED 조명기의 수명 및 고장 발생을 최소화 하고자 연구를 진행하였으며, 현재 LED 칩의 경우 수명이 반영구적이라고 할 수 있지만, LED 칩의 수명에 비해 LED 조명기의 구동드라이버는 수명이 길지 않다. 최근에는 중국산등의 저가 LED 조명기가 시장에 진입함으로써 많은 소비자로부터 LED 조명기의 인식이 나빠지고 있다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하고자 본 논문에서는 고장의 원인이 되는 LED 구동드라이버 부분에 있는 전해 콘덴서 부분을 제거하여 기존의 구동드라이버 보다 수명이 긴 AC Direct IC를 이용하여 25W급의 LED 조명기를 설계하였다.

• 한국신뢰성학회지:신뢰성응용연구
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.67-78
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• 2012

An electric double-layer capacitor(EDLC) is an electrochemical capacitor with relatively high energy density, typically hundreds of times greater than conventional electrolytic capacitors. EDLCs are widely used for energy storage rather than as general-purpose circuit components. They have a variety of commercial applications, notably in energy smoothing and momentary-load devices, and energy-storage and kinetic energy recovery system devices used in vehicles, etc. This paper presents an accelerated degradation test of an EDLC with rated voltage 2.7V, capacitance 100F, and usage temperature $-40^{\circ}C{\sim}65^{\circ}C$. The EDLCs are tested at $50^{\circ}C$, $60^{\circ}C$, and $70^{\circ}C$, respectively for 1,750hours, and their capacitances are measured at predetermined times by constant current discharge method. The failure times are predicted from their capacitance deterioration patterns, where the failure is defined as 30% capacitance decrease from the initial one. It is assumed that the lifetime distribution of EDLC follows Weibull and Arrhenius life-stress relationship holds. The life-stress relationship, acceleration factor, and $B_{10}$ life at design condition are estimated by analyzing the accelerated life test data.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.1109-1118
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• 2014

A Fundamental Frequency Sorting Algorithm (FFSA) is proposed in this paper to balance the voltages of floating dc capacitors for Modular Multilevel Converters (MMCs). The main idea is to change the sequences of the CPS-PWM carriers according to the capacitor voltage increments during the previous fundamental period. Excessive frequent sorting is avoided and many calculating resources are saved for the controller. As a result, more sub-modules can be dealt with. Furthermore, it does not need to measure the arm currents. Therefore, the communication between the controllers can be simplified and the number of current sensors can be reduced. Moreover, the proposed balancing method guarantees that all of the switching frequencies of the sub-modules are equal to each other. This is quite beneficial for the thermal design of the sub-modules and the lifetime of the power switches. Simulation and experimental results acquired from a 9-level prototype verify the viability of the proposed balancing method.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제16권5호
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• pp.1894-1903
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• 2016

In general, electrolytic capacitors are used to reduce power pulsations on PV-panels. However, this can reduce the reliability of the PV AC-module system, because electrolytic capacitors have a shorter lifetime than PV-panels. In addition, PV-panels generate irregular power and inject it into the grid because the output power of a PV-panel depends on the surrounding conditions such as irradiation and temperature. To solve these problems, a grid-connected photovoltaic (PV) AC-module with active power decoupling and energy storage is proposed. A parallel bi-directional converter is connected to the AC module to reduce the output power pulsations of PV-panels. Thus, the electrolytic capacitor can be replaced with a film capacitor. In addition, the irregular output power due to the surrounding conditions can be regulated by using a parallel energy storage circuit. To maintain the discontinuous conduction mode at low irradiation, the frequency control method is adopted. The design method of the proposed converter and the operation principles are introduced. An experimental prototype rated at 125W was built to verify the performance of the proposed converter.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.182-189
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• 2012

In this paper, the input current and output voltage ripple of the soft switching interleaved boost converter was analyzed. Ripples of input current and output voltage with an interleaved method is analysed and as a result, the facts that it has lower ripple current than conventional interleaved method is verified. it means that a capacity of a main inductor can be reduced. Besides, a low capacitance of capacitor which means high lifetime and confidence can be used because of reducing ripples of output voltage. In order to verify the validity of the proposed converter used 10uF film capacitor, experiment was performed, and the efficiency of the proposed converter was measured with variable load and duty conditions.

• 한국태양에너지학회 논문집
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• 제39권2호
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• pp.81-92
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• 2019

When Photovoltaic inverter is connected to grid and used as PVPCS (Photovoltaic Power Conditioning System), 120 Hz AC ripple occurs at the dc-link capacitor voltage. This AC ripple reduces the efficiency of PVPCS and shortens the lifetime of the capacitor. In this paper, we design a notch filter to remove AC ripple. As a result, the AC voltage ripple was removed from the dc link and the THD of the PVPCS output current with the notch filter was lowered. This notch filter is determined by the damping coefficient, the bandwidth coefficient, and the switching frequency. Among these, the switching frequency determines the switching loss and the size of the LC filter, and the PVPCS with the high switching frequency has a greater efficiency loss due to the switching loss than the efficiency improvement by the notch filter. Therefore, it is important to set the optimum switching frequency in the PVPCS with the notch filter applied. In this paper, THD and switching loss of PVPCS output current with notch filter are calculated through simulation, and cost function to calculate optimum switching frequency through data is proposed.

• 한국정보전자통신기술학회논문지
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.388-393
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• 2018

본 논문은 고효율 리플렉터 일체형 50W급 AC 직결형 엔진을 개발하여 SMPS 사용하지 않고 제품의 소형화 및 경량화를 구현하여 소비자가 편리하게 사용하고, AC Driver의 취약한 부분을 보완하기 위해 다단 바리스터 회로를 설계하여 전자 부품 수량 감소를 통한 원가절감 전해 콘덴서를 사용하지 않는 회로 구성으로 고신뢰성을 구현 하여 LED수명을 증대시켰다. 또한 AC 직결형 구동장치를 IC 반도체로 제작하여 리플렉터 일체형으로 AC 직결형 구동장치를 적용 하여 제작 그 수명을 LED의 온전한 수명을 모두 사용할 수 있는 장치와 발광 다이오드 조명 장치의 제어 회로에 하나 이상의 발광다이오드를 포함하는 여러 개의 발광 다이오드 채널이 직렬로 구성되는 광원을 정류 전압으로 구동하는 발광 다이오드 조명 장치의 제어회로를 제안하였다.