• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.435-442
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• 2010

This paper proposes an 18-step back-to-back (BTB) voltage source converter using four sets of 3-Level converter modules with auxiliary circuits to increase the number of steps. The proposed BTB voltage source converter has the independent control capability of active power and reactive power at the interconnected ac system. The operational feasibility of the proposed BTB converter was verified through many simulations with PSCAD/EMTDC software. The feasibility of hardware implementation was verified through experimental results with a scaled hardware prototype. The proposed BTB converter could be widely applied for interconnecting the renewable energy source to the power grid.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2000.07a
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• pp.274-277
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• 2000

Power factor and harmonics are increasingly important for high speed train auxiliary block. This paper presents experimental results of the power factor and harmonic performance of four parallel PWM converter circuits under various supply and load conditions. For reducing harmonics the harmonic content is eliminated by the phase shift between four converters switching phase. Experimental results show the usefulness of the proposed method and applicability to PWM converter in auxiliary block of high speed train.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society for Simulation Conference
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• 2002.05a
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• pp.177-181
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• 2002

In this paper, the design of 12bit pipeline BiCMOS A/D converter presented. A BiCMOS operational amplifier and comparator suitable for use in the pipeline A/D converter. The main features is low distortion track-and-hold with 0-300MHz input bandwidth, and a proprietary 12bit multi-stage quantizer.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2001.06b
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• pp.45-48
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• 2001

An programmable current-mode folding and interpolation analog to digital converter (ADC) with programmable interpolator is proposed in this paper. A programmable interpolator is employed not only to vary the resolution of data converter, but also to decrease a power dissipation within the ADC. Because of varying the number of interpolation circuits, resolution is vary from 6 to 10bit. The designed ADC fabricated by a 0.6${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ n-well CMOS double metal/single poly process. The experimental result shows the power dissipation from 26 to 87mW with a power supply of 3.3V.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.2 no.3
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• pp.199-205
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• 2002

This paper compares three kinds of soft-switching circuits from viewpoints of surge suppression, load characteristic, and power efficiency for a tapped-inductor buck converter with low voltage and high current. As a result, these soft-switching techniques have achieved much higher efficiency of 80 % when compared with a hard-switching buck converter for the output condition of 1V and 20A.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers B
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• v.52 no.4
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• pp.170-176
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• 2003

This paper introduces an improved pulse generator using power semiconductors and L-C circuit. The proposed circuit consists of the series connected boost converter structure. In the presented circuits, high voltage pulse is generated by series-connection of capacitors and IGBTs. The charging of capacitors and voltage balance of IGBTs are obtained automatically. To verify the proposed circuit, 1.8㎸, 40A pulse generator is manufactured and tested.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2018.11a
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• pp.197-198
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• 2018

This paper proposes a novel hybrid converter topology suitable for electric vehicle on-board battery chargers, which is a combination of the full-bridge (FB) and half-bridge (HB) LLC circuits. A full load controllability under wide output voltage range can be achieved with a small resonant inductance, which increases the efficiency and lowers the size and cost. Simulation results are shown to evaluate the dynamic performance of the proposed converter.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.56-63
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• 2004

A new driving circuit for the SPSS (Single-Pulse Soft-Switching) PFC converter is proposed. The switching device of a SPSS converter switches once in every half cycle of an AC commercial power source. Therefore, it can be solved many problems caused by the high frequency operation. The proposed SPSS converter achieves the soft-switching operation and the EMI noise can be reduced. The resonant capacitor voltage supplies to the resonant inductor even if the input AC voltage is the vicinity of zero cross voltage. Then, the power factor and input current waveform can be improved without delay time. A new driving circuit achieves the operation of SPSS converter by one switching drive circuit. The proposed converter can be satisfied the IEC standard sufficiently

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers P
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• v.62 no.3
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• pp.145-150
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• 2013

A novel AC to DC PWM converters with unity input power factor are proposed to overcome the above shortcoming. The main function of these converters is to shape the input line current to force it exactly in phase with the input AC voltage. Therefore, the input power factor can be improved to near unity and the input current harmonics can be eliminated. In this paper, half-bridge converter with two active switches and two diodes are utilized for low-cost type UPS configuration. By having only two semiconductors in the current path at any time, losses can be reduced over the conventional boost topology. Also, this converter provides controllable dc-link voltage, high power factor, and low cost type converter by simple power circuits. Simulation results show that the proposed half-bridge converter/inverter control technique can be applied to single-phase low-cost type UPS systems successfully.

• Progress in Superconductivity and Cryogenics
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.8-12
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• 2002

Since the high performance analog-to-digital converter can be built with Rapid Single Flux Quantum (RSFQ) logic circuits the development of superconductive analog-to-digital converter has attracted a lot of interests as one of the most prospective area of the application of Josephson Junction technology. One of the main advantages in using Rapid Sng1e Flux Quantum logic in the analog-to-digital converter is the low voltage output from the Josephson junction switching, and hence the high resolution. To design an analog-digital converter, first we have used XIC tool to compose a circuit schematic, and then studied the operational principle of the circuit with WRSPICE tool. Through this process, we obtained the proper circuit diagram of an 1-bit analog-digital converter circuit. The optimized circuit was laid out as a mask drawing. Inductance values of the circuit layout were calculated with L-meter.