• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.53-58
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• 2021

Operation of the interleaved Boost PFC converter in Critical Conduction Mode (CrM) shows the advantages of high efficiency and good EMI characteristics owing to the valley switching of FET. However, when it is designed for a highly pulsating load, operation at a relatively high frequency is inevitable at non-pulsating typical load condition, resulting in efficiency degradation. Moreover, the physical size of the inductor becomes problematic because of the nature of the CrM operation, where the inductor peak current is about two times the inductor average current, thereby requiring high DC-bias characteristics, which is worse when the output power is high. In this study, a new parallel driving method of two sets of interleaved boost PFC converters for highly pulsating high-power application is proposed. The proposed method does not require any additional load-sharing controller, resulting in high efficiency and smaller inductor size.

• Proceedings of the KWS Conference
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• 2005.06a
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• pp.94-96
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• 2005

Welding process of ultra thin stainless steel foil was investigated using a single mode Yb-fiber laser with a CW maximum output power 40W. In micro welding, critical power density for keyhole welding was 1 to 2 orders larger higher than in macro-welding due to larger thermal conduction, extremely high speed welding becomes possible.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of IIIuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.225-227
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• 2006

Active power factor correction methods for electronic ballast are reviewed in this paper. PFC technology becomes more important due to various wattage ratings of new light sources. Expecially, most popular two method critical conduction mode and average mode, are described. Each characteristics are compared in relation to application target and power rating.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.1970-1979
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• 2017

Ultra Lift Luo Converter (ULC) gained considerable research interest in recent years. The stability analysis of voltage mode and peak current mode controlled ULC in continuous conduction mode is analyzed in this paper. The Eigen value theory is used for the stability analysis of voltage mode controlled ULC. Then to characterize the dynamics of inner current loop, the expressions of closed loop transfer function and loop gain are determined. An algorithm has been developed to analyze the stability of the peak current mode controlled ULC. The theoretical results are correlated with the simulation results obtained using PSIM 9.1(SMARTCTRL 1.0) software. Finally it is proposed to fabricate a prototype and validate the performance by suitable experimental setup.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1997.07f
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• pp.1993-1998
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• 1997

This paper presentes a novel single-phase unity power factor rectifer, which features Critical Conduction Mode and ZVS. The reduced conduction losses are achieved by the employment of a single converter instead of the typical configuration composed of a front end rectifier followed by a boost converter. Theoretical analysis, a design example and experimental results of a 300 converter with $127V_{rms}$ input voltage and 400 VDC output voltage are presented.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2018.07a
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• pp.210-212
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• 2018

A new switching mode has been proposed to obtain high power factor and low THD in single stage AC-DC converter. The conventional voltage mode control in critical conduction mode distorts input current shape with poor THD in flyback topology. Once TRIAC dimmer is connected, visible flicker in the LED lamp is easily detected due to a lack of TRAIC holding current near the input voltage zero cross. The newly proposed method can shape the input current by providing a desired reference voltage so that low THD is obtained by ideal sinusoidal input current in case of no dimmer connection and flat input current performs good TRIAC dimmer compatibility in phase-cut dimming condition. To confirm the validity of the proposed method, theoretical analysis and experimental result from 8W dimmable LED lighting system are presented.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.30 no.10 s.253
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• pp.996-1002
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• 2006

Experiments in methane-air low strain rate counterflow diffusion flames diluted with nitrogen have been conducted to study the behavior of flame extinction and edge flame oscillation in which flame length is less than the burner diameter and thus lateral conduction heat loss in addition to radiative heat loss could be remarkable at low global strain rates. Critical mole fraction at flame extinction is examined with velocity ratio and global strain rate. Onset conditions of edge flame oscillation and flame oscillation modes are also provided with global strain rate and added nitrogen mole fraction to fuel stream (fuel Lewis number). It is seen that flame length is closely relevant to lateral heat loss, and this affects flame extinction and edge flame oscillation considerably. Edge flame oscillations in low strain rate flames are experimentally described well and are categorized into three: a growing oscillation mode, a decaying oscillation mode, and a harmonic oscillation mode. The regime of flame oscillation is also provided at low strain rate flames. Important contribution of lateral heat loss even to edge flame oscillation is clarified

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2013.07a
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• pp.186-187
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• 2013

역률 보상(Power Factor Correction) 회로의 입력 전압은 정현파이다. 부스트 역률 보상 회로의 경우, 정현파인 입력 전압의 크기가 충분히 작을 때 다이오드가 도통하지 않는 구간이 생긴다. 이 구간에서는 입력 전류 파형의 왜곡이 일어나고, 입력 전류의 전고조파왜율(Total Harmonic Distortion)이 증가하게 된다. 본 논문에서는 임계 도통 모드(Critical Conduction Mode) 역률 보상 부스트 컨버터에 한하여 두 가지 영전류 검출 방법을 사용하여 전고조파왜율을 개선하는 방법을 제안하고, 모의실험으로써 성능을 검증하였다.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.1283-1289
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• 2014

The state transition matrix are obtained by solving state equations in terms of Laplace inverse transformation and Cayley-Hamilton theorem, and an establishment of a precise discrete-iterative mapping of the voltage-fed buck-boost converter operating in discontinuous conduction mode is made. On the basis of the mapping, the converter bifurcation diagrams and Lyapunov exponent diagrams with the input voltage, the resistance, the inductance and the capacitance as the bifurcation parameters are obtained, and the effect of the parameters on the system stability is deeply studied. The results obtained show that they have a great influence on the stability of the system, and the general trend is that the increase of either the voltage-fed coefficient, input voltage or the load resistance, or the decrease of the filtering inductance, capacitance will make the system stability become poorer, and that all the parameters have a critical value, and when they are greater or less than the values, the system will go through stable 1T orbits, stable 2T orbits, 4T orbits, 8T orbits and eventually approaches chaos.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2016.07a
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• pp.75-76
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• 2016

This paper proposes a power factor correction circuit with a high efficiency over a wide load range characteristics for a communication power supply. And the characteristic verification is applied to produce a design of prototype. Power factor correction circuit can reduce conduction losses by applying Bridgeless Boost Converter for efficiency. Over a wide load range to maintain the efficient, the control method of a PWM controller is divided by two sections according to the load area. In the low-load region, it was reduced switching losses by applying the critical conduction mode control method. On the other hand, in the heavy-load area, the hysteresis current control method is used to maintain the high efficiency over a wide load range by limiting the peak noise of the inductor.