• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.509-516
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• 2015

The overmodulation characteristics of a carrier-based medium vector pulse width modulation (CBMVPWM) are examined in this study. CBMVPWM can completely eliminate leakage currents in a three-phase, three-level inverter using only the switching states with the same common mode voltage even in an overmodulation operation. The analytic equations for the magnitude of the output voltage and the switching frequency are derived for overmodulation operation, and the effect of dead time on the leakage current is demonstrated. This study presents the operating principle of CBMVPWM, basic overmodulation features, and simulations and experiments for operating verification.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.37 no.3
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• pp.637-645
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• 2015

Common-mode noise (CMN) is an unresolved problem in wireless capsule endoscopy (WCE) systems. In a WCE system, CMN originates from various electric currents found within the human body or external interference sources and causes critical demodulation performance degradation. The differential operation, a typical method for the removal of CMN rejection, can remove CMN by subtracting two signals simultaneously received by two reception sensors attached to a human body. However, when there is impedance mismatching between the two reception sensors, the differential operation method cannot completely remove CMN. Therefore, to overcome this problem, we propose an enhanced CMN rejection method. The proposed method performs not only subtraction but also addition between two received signals. Then a CMN ratio can be estimated by sufficient accumulation of division operation outcomes between the subtraction and addition outputs during the guard period. Finally, we can reject the residual CMN by combining the subtraction and addition outputs.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1993.07a
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• pp.479-482
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• 1993

A fully balanced differential amplifier can achieve high-gain wide-bandwidth characteristics. And also, Offset PSRR, CMRR and Noise performance of that are excellent, but these merits can be achieved only when the architecture holds fully balanced. Commonly, the fully balanced differential amplifier has a common mode feedback(CMFB) circuit in order to maintain the balance. This paper presents improved characteristics of the CMFB circuit and designs the wide-bandwidth CMOS Op-amp. The unity gain bandwidth of this Op-amp is 50MHz with the load capacitor 2pF, and the value of phase margin is $85^{\circ}$.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2014.07a
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• pp.287-288
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 3레벨 4레그 컨버터에서 커먼 모드 전압(Common-mode Voltage, CMV)을 저감하기 위한 삼각파 비교 전압 변조 기법을 제안하였다. 제안한 PWM 방법은 매우 직관적이고, DSP 제어 시스템에서 쉽게 구현할 수 있다. SVPWM, SPWM의 스위칭 패턴 분석을 통하여 CMV 저감을 위한 4번째 레그(f상)의 극 전압 패턴을 제안하였고, 해당하는 f상 극 전압의 합성을 위하여, f상 양/음의 극 전압 지령 값을 계산하였다. 또한 a, b, c상 전압 왜곡을 막기 위한 옵셋 전압을 유도하였다. 제안한 PWM 방법의 유효성은 모의실험과 실험 결과를 통하여 검증되었다. 제안된 방법에서 CMV의 첨두치 및 스위칭 수는 SVPWM 방법에 비하여 각각 33%, 25%로 대폭 감소하였다.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.56-61
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• 2019

In this study, a reduction method of leakage current in a three-level photovoltaic power-conditioning system (PCS) is proposed and verified by simulation and experiment. Leakage current generation is analyzed through an equivalent model of the common mode voltage considering a significant parasitic capacitance existing between the photovoltaic array and ground. A leakage current reduction method using pulse-width modulation (PWM) method is also proposed, and a 10-kW three-level photovoltaic PCS simulation and experiment is performed with a $1{\mu}F$ parasitic capacitor based on 100 nF/kW. The proposed method using the PWM method is verified to reduce the leakage current by 73% compared with the conventional PWM method.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2019.07a
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• pp.20-22
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• 2019

본 논문에서 공통모드 커플드 인덕터(Common Mode Coupled Inducter, CMCI)를 적용한 2단 직렬 위상천이 풀브리지 컨버터를 제안한다. 제안하는 위상천이 풀브리지 컨버터는 고주파수로 동작하며, 높은 입력전압에 대응할 수 있다. 풀브리지를 직렬로 쌓은 구조로 상단 풀브리지 컨버터와 하단 풀브리지 컨버터가 동시에 스위칭 한다. 2차측은 센터텝 정류기를 사용하여 풀브리지 정류기에 비해 다이오드 전압강하가 절반이라는 장점을 가진다. 또한, 변압기에 CMCI를 적용하여 1차측 상단과 하단의 전류 균형을 유지하도록 구성하였다. 제안하는 위상천이 풀브리지 컨버터의 5.8kW급 시제품을 제작하여 그 타당성을 검증하였다.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.28 no.1
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• pp.1-7
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• 2023

A grid-connected 3-level NPC inverter is a power conversion device that connects renewable energy generators, such as photovoltaic or wind turbines to the grid. Although many studies have focused on this inverter, commercializing it requires strictly satisfying various safety and power quality-related standards. Among many standards, leakage current and grid current total harmonic distortion(THD) can be affected by external factors such as installation environment, aging, and grid conditions. Hence, inverter operations that can satisfy these standards need to be explored. In this study a 3-level NPC inverter operation algorithm using the Phase Opposition Disposition-PWM method that can effectively reduce leakage current and switching frequency adjustment to reduce THD effectively has been proposed.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.7 no.5
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• pp.907-915
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• 2003

A very efficient packet transmission scheme is needed in the radio environment where radio resource is insufficient as compared with the environment of the wired communication. In general, dual mode packet transmission scheme is used broadly. Packets are transmitted through the dedicated or common chamois according to a switching criterion. The general criteria are the length and generation frequency of packet, that is, large and frequent packets are transmitted using a dedicated channel and small and infrequent packets are transmitted using a common channel. The performance of dual mode packet transmission scheme is closely related to the switching criteria. However, it is very difficult to find the optimal switching point because that is not fixed but variable according to the environment such as traffic load, length of generated packets, and the number of channels. In this paper, a new scheme for the dual mode packet transmission scheme using a dynamic switching threshold is proposed where the switching threshold is not fixed but variable according to the network environment. The performance of the proposed method is analyzed using a simulation. From the simulation results, it is shown that the performance of the proposed scheme is not very influenced by the network environment unlike the conventional dual mode packet transmission scheme.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.329-334
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• 2014

This paper proposes the hardware architecture of high performance multi-mode 2D forward transform for HEVC which has same number of cycles for processing any type of four TUs and yield high throughput. In order to make the original image which has high pixel and high resolution into highly compressed image effectively, the transform technique of HEVC supports 4 kinds of pixel units, TUs and it finds the optimal mode after performs each transform computation. As the proposed transform engine uses the common computation operator which is produced by analyzing the relationship among transform matrix coefficients, it can process every 4 kinds of TU mode matrix operation with 35cycles equally. The proposed transform block was designed by Verilog HDL and synthesized by using TSMC 0.18um CMOS processing technology. From the results of logic synthesis, the maximum operating frequency was 400MHz and total gate count was 214k gates which has the throughput of 10-Gpels/cycle with the $4k(3840{\times}2160)@30fps$ image.

• Journal of Korean Society on Water Environment
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• v.25 no.6
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• pp.872-878
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• 2009

Advanced Phase Isolation Ditch (APID) process was studied to develop economic retrofitting technology, for the plants where retrofitting of common activated sludge process is required. In this study, to develop and apply the modified intermittently aeration mode as process control conditions for treating municipal wastewater, a demonstration plant was installed and operated in the existing sewage treatment plant of P city. During this study, the average effluent $BOD_5$, SS, T-N, and T-P concentrations were 6.3, 4.5, 10.0, and 1.3 mg/L. The modified mode decreased the nitrification capability more than the conventional mode in the application period. Nitrate in the anaerobic condition can have a negative effect on biological phosphorus removal. In the decreasing nitrate levels, the modified mode increased the biological ability of removal phosphorus more than the conventional mode in this study. Therefore, newly developed APID process with modified intermittent aeration mode can be one of the useful processes for stable organic matter and nutrients removal.