• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.186-196
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• 2013

This paper presents a low voltage-stress AC-linked charge equalizing system for balancing the energy in a serially connected, valve-regulated lead acid battery string using a modular converter that consists of multiple transformers coupled together. Each converter was coupled through an AC-linked bus to increase the overall energy transfer efficiency of the system and to eliminate the problem of the unbalanced charging of batteries. Previous solutions are based on centralized and modularized topologies. A centralized topology requires a redesign of the hardware and related components. It also faces a high voltage stress when the number of batteries is expanded. Modularized solutions use low-voltage-stress, double-stage, DC-linked topologies which leads to poor energy transfer efficiency. The proposed solution uses a low-voltage stress, AC-linked, modularized topology that makes adding more batteries easier. It also has a better energy transfer efficiency. To ensure that the charge equalization system operates smoothly and safely charges batteries, a small intelligent microcontroller was used in the control section. The efficiency of this charge equalization system is 85%, which is 21% better than other low-voltage-stress DC-linked charging techniques. The validity of this approach was confirmed by experimental results.

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 2015년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.25-26
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• 2015

Inductive Power Transfer (IPT) method becomes more and more popular for the Electric Vehicle (EV) battery charger due to its convenience and safety in comparison with plugged-in charger. In recent years, Lithium batteries are increasingly used in EVs and Constant Current/Constant Voltage (CC/CV) charge needs to be adopted for the high efficiency charge. However, it is not easy to design the IPT Battery Charger which can charge the battery with CC/CV charge under the wide range of load variation due to the wide range of variation in its operating frequency. This paper propose a new design and control method which makes it possible to implement the CC/CV mode charge with minimum frequency variation (less than 1kHz) during all over the charge process. A 6.6kW prototype charge has been implemented and 96.1% efficiency was achieved with 20cm air gap between the coils.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2007년도 추계종합학술대회
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• pp.776-780
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 저전압 DRAM용 VPP Generator의 전하펌프회로(Charge Pump Circuit)를 새롭게 제안하였다. 제안된 전하펌프회로는 2-Stage 크로스 커플 전하펌프회로(Cross-Coupled Charge Pump Circuit)이다. 4개의 비중첩 클럭신호들을 이용하여 전하전달 효율을 향상시켰고, 각 전하펌프단 마다 Oscillation 주기를 줄일 목적으로 Distributed Clock Driver인 Inverter 4개를 추가하여 펌핑전류(Pumping Current)를 증가시켰다. 그리고 전하전달 트랜지스터의 게이트단에 프리차지회로 (Precharge Circuit)를 두어 대기모드진입 시 펌핑된 전하를 방전하지 못하고 고전압을 유지하여 소자의 신뢰성을 떨어트리는 문제를 해결하였다. 모의실험결과 펌핑전류, 펌핑효율(Pumping Efficiency), 파워효율(Power Efficiency) 모두 향상된 것을 확인하였고, $0.18{\mu}m$ Triple-Well 공정을 이용하여 Layout 하였다.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SD
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• 제46권12호
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• pp.80-86
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• 2009

전하펌프의 성능은 공급전압에 의해 크게 영향을 받는다. 본 논문에서는 표준 twin-well CMOS 로직 공정으로 제작 가능하며, 낮은 공급전압에서도 높은 효율을 갖는 새로운 전하펌프 회로를 제안하고 검증하였다. 제안한 전하펌프는 이중의 전하 전달 경로와 간단한 2-phase 클락을 사용한다. 한 주기의 펌핑 사이클 동안 각 펌핑 단에서 입력전압을 2배로 승압하며, 상보적으로 연결된 PMOS 트랜지스터를 전달 스위치로 사용하여 트랜지스터의 문턱전압에 의한 전압강하 없이 승압된 전압을 다음 승압 단으로 전달한다. 시뮬레이션과 측정을 통해 제안한 전하펌프를 검증하였으며, 동일한 공정조건에서 제작 가능한 기존 전하펌프들 보다 높은 출력전압과 큰 전류 구동능력 그리고 더 높은 전력효율을 가진다는 것을 확인하였다.

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 2015년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.27-28
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• 2015

In this paper a high efficiency wireless on-board charger for Electric Vehicle (EV) is proposed and the theoretical analysis based on the two-port network model to come up with suitable design for the battery charge application is presented. The proposed Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) method has adopted four-coil system with air core and its superior performance is proved by comparing it to the conventional two-coil system by the mathematical analysis. In addition, since the proposed WPT converter is able to operate at an almost constant frequency regardless of the load, CC/CV charge of the battery can be simply implemented. A 6.6kW prototype is implemented with 20cm air gap to prove the validity of the proposed method. The experimental results show that the dc to dc conversion efficiency of the proposed system achieves 97.08% at 3.7 kW.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.233-236
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• 2006

A 3-D numerical simulation of a buried-channel CCD (Charge Coupled Device) with a deep depletion has been performed to investigate its electrical and physical behaviors. Results are presented for a deep depletion CCD (EEV CCD12; JET-X CCD) fabricated on a high-resistivity $(1.5k\Omega-cm)\;65{\mu}m$ thick epi-layer, on a $550{\mu}m$ thick p+ substrate, which is optimized for X-ray detection. Accurate predictions of the Potential minimum and barrier height of a CCD Pixel as a function of mobile electrons are found to give good charge transfer. The depletion depth approximation as a function of gate and substrate bias voltage provided average errors of less than 6%, compared with the results estimated from X-ray detection efficiency measurements. The result obtained from the transient simulation of signal charge movement is also presented based on 3-Dimensional analysis.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SD
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• 제45권5호
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• pp.50-57
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 CMOS image sensor(CIS)에서 사용될 수 있는 고 효율 charge pump를 제안하였다. 제안된 charge pump는 CIS의 동작 특성을 활용하여 switching loss 및 reversion loss를 최소화하여 고 효율 동작을 실현하였다. 즉, CIS 픽셀 동작 구간에 따라 local clock driver, 펌핑 커패시터, 그리고 charge 전달 switch의 크기를 역동적으로 조절함으로써 switching loss 를 최소화하였다. 또한, schmitt trigger를 채용한 tri-state local clock driver를 이용하여 non-overlapping 구간이 충분히 확보된 local clock을 공급할 수 있게 함으로써 reversion loss를 최소화하였다. 0.13-um CMOS 공정을 이용한 시뮬레이션 비교 결과, 제안된 charge pump는 구동 전류가 없는 조건에서 기존 구조에 비해 최대 49.1% 전력 소모를 개선하였으며, 구동 전류가 최대인 조건에서는 19.0% 전력 소모를 개선할 수 있었음을 확인하였다.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 1996년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.291-295
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• 1996

This paper discusses several design factors of a capacitance displacement sensor with a numerical method and several experiments and describes guide lines of the design of this type sensor. We introduce the charge density method for the analysis of this type sensor, which has feasible accuracy and efficiency. The analysis of this type sensor with the charge density method agrees with displacement sensitivity experiments of a circular plate capacitance sensor with the sensor amp based In the charge transfer principle.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제2권4호
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• pp.518-524
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• 2007

This paper describes several improved characterizations of the EPIC CCD, which now has modified electrode and channel structures. From a 3-D numerical simulation of the device, its channel doping and potential distributions are then observed for the optimization of the charge transfer. A wavelength-dependence on the device structure is observed in terms of the reflectivity of the incident radiation. The optical properties of ultra-low energy levels, when using an open-electrode structure, are then considered to improve their quantum efficiency.

• 한국광학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국광학회 2000년도 하계학술발표회
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• pp.228-229
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• 2000

Buried channel JET-X CCDs (Joint European X-ray Telescope Charge Coupled Devices: EEV CCD12) with a deep depletion have been analyzed to provide an optimized condition for a charge storage and transfer. A maximum charge capacity has been found for the supplementary narrow channel by considering the potential distribution as a function of a mobile charge. Analysis for the depletion edges of JET-X CCDs have been successfully performed, showing good agreement with the depths estimated from X-ray detection efficiency measurements [1]. (omitted)