• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2003.07a
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• pp.428-431
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• 2003

In this paper, the stress induced leakage currents of thin silicon oxides is investigated in the ULSI implementation with nano structure transistors. The stress and transient currents associated with the on and off time of applied voltage were used to measure the distribution of high voltage stress induced traps in thin silicon oxide films. The stress and transient currents were due to the charging and discharging of traps generated by high stress voltage in the silicon oxides. The transient current was caused by the tunnel charging and discharging of the stress generated traps nearby two interfaces. The stress induced leakage current will affect data retention in electrically erasable programmable read only memories. The oxide current for the thickness dependence of stress current, transient current, and stress induced leakage currents has been measured in oxides with thicknesses between $113.4{\AA}$ and $814{\AA}$, which have the gate area 10-3cm2. The stress induced leakage currents will affect data retention and the stress current, transient current is used to estimate to fundamental limitations on oxide thicknesses.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.5 no.3
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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.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2001.06b
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• pp.85-88
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• 2001

This paper suggests an improved switch architecture for the rechargeable battery protection IC. In the existing protection IC, charging and discharging switches composed of the CMOS transistor and the diode are external components. It is difficult to integrate the switches in a CMOS process due to the large chip-size overhead and inevitable parasitic effects. In this paper, we propose a new switch architecture of the MOSFET's 'diode connection' method. The performance and chip-size overhead are proved to be adequate for the fully integrated protection IC.

• Analytical Science and Technology
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.603-610
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• 1995

The charge transfer rate in polypyrrole(PPy) electropolymerized within poly(acrylonitrile-co-butadiene)(PAB) was compared with that in PPy deposited Pt electrodes by using cyclic voltammetry, chronoamperometry, and chronopotentiometry in acetonitrile. For both electrodes anodic and cathodic peak currents were proportional to scan rates below 100 mV/sec, but to square root of scan rates beyond 200 mV/sec. The apparent diffusion coefficient of $ClO{_4}^-$ in the PPy/PAB composite is estimated to be 1.6 times larger than that in PPy. The PPy films composited within PAB layer showed higher anodic and cathodic currents and possessed faster charging-discharging process and larger capacity.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.2227-2235
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• 2018

Under the current policies and compensation rules in South Korea, Photovoltaic (PV) generation supplier can maximize the profit by combining PV generation with Energy Storage System (ESS). However, the existing operational strategy of ESS is not able to maximize the profit due to the limitation of ESS capacity. In this paper, new ESS scheduling algorithm is introduced by utilizing the System Marginal Price (SMP) and PV generation forecasting to maximize the profits of PV generation supplier. The proposed algorithm determines the charging time of ESS by ranking the charging schedule from low to high SMP when PV generation is more than enough to charge ESS. The discharging time of ESS is determined by ranking the discharging schedule from high to low SMP when ESS energy is not enough to maintain the discharging. To compensate forecasting error, the algorithm is updated every hour to apply the up-to-date information. The simulation is performed to verify the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm by using actual PV generation and ESS information.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 1999.11a
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• pp.216-219
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• 1999

A simple two-terminal cyclic current-voltage(I-V) technique is used to measure the current-transients in MOS capacitors. Distinct charging/discharging currents were measured and analyzed as a function of (1) the hold time. (2) the gate polarity during the FNT electron injection, (3) the injection fluence and (4) the annealing time after the injection had stopped. Discharging and charging current-transients were strongly dependent upon the conditions for forming the inversion layer and the density of interface traps caused during the FNT electron injection, respectively. Several tentative mechanisms were suggested in the current work.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics T
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• v.35T no.1
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• pp.29-32
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• 1998

The low level leakage currents in silicon oxides were investigated. The low level leakage currents were composed of a transient component and a do component. The transient component was caused by the tunnel charging and discharging of the stress generated traps nearby two interfaces. The do component was caused by trap assisted tunneling completely through the oxide. The low level leakage current was proportional to the number of traps generated in the oxides. The low level leakage current may be a trap charging and discharging current. The low level leakage current will affect data retention in EEPROM.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Technology Engineers
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.307-311
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• 2016

Several types of supercapacitors have been developed for energy storage systems. Among them, the hybrid type has advantages such as a large capacitance per weight compared with the electric double-layer capacitator type. In this study, constant current charging and discharging tests were conducted for recently developed hybrid-type supercapacitors. Based on the experimental results, the capacitance and equivalent series resistance were obtained. The capacitance was larger than the designed capacitance at a low current but became small at a high current. In addition, the capacitance depended on the cell voltage. These results can be used to design an energy storage system.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.1-9
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• 2012

This study investigates an application of the Hamming network-dual extended Kalman filter (DEKF) based on pattern recognition for high accuracy state-of-charge (SOC)/capacity estimation and state-of-health (SOH) prediction at various temperatures. The averaged nine discharging/charging voltage-temperature (DCVT) patterns for ten fresh Li-Ion cells at experimental temperatures are measured as representative patterns, together with cell model parameters. Through statistical analysis, the Hamming network is applied to identify the representative pattern that matches most closely with the pattern of an arbitrary cell measured at any temperature. Based on temperature-checking process, model parameters for a representative DCVT pattern can then be applied to estimate SOC/capacity and to predict SOH of an arbitrary cell using the DEKF. This avoids the need for repeated parameter measuremet.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.1438-1445
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• 2015

A new DC-DC power converter is researched for renewable energy and battery hybrid power supplies systems in this paper. At the charging mode, a renewable energy source provides energy to charge a battery via the proposed converter. The operating principle of the proposed converter is the same as the conventional DC-DC buck converter. At the discharging mode, the battery releases its energy to the DC bus via the proposed converter. The proposed converter is a non-isolated high step-up DC-DC converter. The coupled-inductor technique is used to achieve a high step-up voltage gain by adjusting the turns ratio. Moreover, the leakage-inductor energies of the primary and secondary windings can be recycled. Thus, the conversion efficiency can be improved. Therefore, only one power converter is utilized at the charging or discharging modes. Finally, a prototype circuit is implemented to verify the performance of the proposed converter.