• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.432-438
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• 2001

In this paper, after applying Defected Ground Structure(DGS) to DC block, changes of gap and length of λ/4 coupled line are investigated by EM simulation and fabrication. As a result, on condition of the same output with the case using typical DC block, the gap between λ/4 coupled line is widen from 0.1 mm to 0.46 mm by 0.36 mm and the length of λ/4 coupled line gets shorter from 17.7 mm to 13.2 mm by 4.5 mm. Also three type power amplifiers using blocking capacitor, typical DC block and DGS DC block are fabricated and investigated. At first, when S parameter characteristics of each amplifier are considered at frequency band of 3.2 +-0.O5 GHz, every amplifier has similar characteristics of gain and S parameter. Second when the output power of amplifiers is 25 dBm after putting CW signal of 3.2 GHz into three type amplifiers, the difference of dominant signal and 2nd harmonic signal using blocking capacitor, typical DC block and DGS DC block is each -44.83 dBc, -66.84 dBc and -64.33 dBc. Therefore harmonic characteristics of amplifiers using typical DC block and DGS DC block is almost same.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 1996.06a
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• pp.71-75
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• 1996

As the Three-level ZVS PWM DC-DC converter operates likewise full-bridge ZVS PWM DC-DC converter and the blocking voltage of each switching device is a half of the DC-link voltage, it is suitable for the high imput voltage applications. However, it has some problems as follows; The blocking voltage of each devices is unbalanced and it causes the power losses of the inner switching devices to be increased. Also, it has narrow load range so that the switching losses and the efficiency are reduced as it goes to the light load. This paper presents an nove Three-level ZVS PWM DC-DC converter, which can reduce the overvoltage of the outer switches, eliminate the unbalance of the voltage sharing between the switches at turn-off due to the stray inductances, and operate from no load to full load. The characteristics and the performances of the proposed Three-level ZVS PWM DC-DC converter are verified by simulation and experimental results

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1994.07a
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• pp.542-546
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• 1994

The objective of the study is to design and develope a 13kW zero voltage switching DC-DC Converter far high power application. Due to using the snubber capacitor in the right leg instead of increasing transformer leakage inductance, DC characteristics and the total efficiency in the proposed ZVS DC-DC converter is increased mere than in the conventional ZVS DC-DC converter by reduction of the circulating current when the load current is large. Also, this paper includes simulation and experimental results of the proposed ZVS FB DC-DC converter.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.124-132
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• 2014

In this paper, we implement a non-time-varying transfer function of the duty ratio to improve the control characteristics in a control system that Input voltage and the output voltage is varied, DC / DC converters for bi-directional charging. When control is performed with using controller gain of conventional design, characteristics of the control is varied to fluctuations of the input voltage. The proposed method is the equivalently removing method for duty ratio in entire control block, by voltage controller gain is changed for inverse of the duty ratio. The proposed non-time-varying duty ratio transfer function is applied to DC / DC converter for bi-directional charging. In this paper, feasibility and superiority is verified through PSIM simulations and experiments.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.65 no.6
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• pp.911-917
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• 2016

DC-based power system is paid attention as interests in energy efficiency and power quality are increased. However, standardization and researches for commercializing Low Voltage DC(LVDC) distribution system are still insufficient. Protection system, which is closely related with reliability, power quality, safety, and life expectancy of components in power system, is also included. This paper therefore analyzes fault response characteristics in LVDC distribution system as a preliminary study on protection schemes. A stepwise analysis on fault current from both AC/DC converter and DC/DC converter is performed and related expressions are derived. And then, modeling and simulation with various conditions are conducted by using ElectroMagnetic Transients Program (EMTP) to verify analysis results. Based on research results in the paper, direction for development of protection schemes for LVDC distribution system is suggested.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.7 no.6
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• pp.1315-1320
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• 2012

In this study, piezoelectric AC-DC converter using ring-dot type multilayer piezoelectric transformer with no anisotropic of polarization was developed. Considering the characteristics of piezoelectric transformer which is very narrow operating frequency range, piezoelectric converter was designed with mixed structure of PFM driving method for feedback control of oscillation frequency and PWM driving method for output control. Maximum power and allowed current of the developed piezoelectric converter showing stable driving with minimum heat was 25W and 900mA, respectively. The output voltage of the piezoelectric converter was controlled by the driving oscillation frequency and showed stable and efficient operating characteristics at the maximum power.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.116-121
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• 2012

DC/DC switching power converters produce DC output voltages from different DC input sources. The converter is used in regenerative braking of DC motors to return energy back in the supply, resulting in energy savings for the systems containing frequent stops. The DC/DC converter is composed of a PWM-IC (pulse width modulation integrated circuit) controller, a MOSFET (metal-oxide semi-conductor field-effect transistor), an inductor, capacitors, and resistors, etc. PWM is applied to control and regulate the total output voltage. In this paper, radiation shows the main influence on the changes in the electrical characteristics of comparator, operational amplifier, etc. in PWM-IC. In the PWM-IC operation, the missing pulses, the changes in pulse width, and the changes of the output waveform are studied by the simulation program with integrated circuit emphasis (SPICE) and compared with experiments.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2000.07a
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• pp.159-162
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• 2000

In his paper the principle of using coreless printed circuit board (PCB) based transformer in 2.3MHz, 12W class ZVS Forward DC-DC converter has been successfully demonstrated. With no core loss coreless PCB transformer and inductor are found to have favorable characteristics at high frequency operations. The maximum power conversion efficiency is 80% Even for high operating frequency an efficiency greater than 70% can be obtained with under 0.7% regulation error.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 1999.07a
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• pp.622-625
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• 1999

This paper introduces a novel zero-voltage switching (ZVS)) pulse width modulation (PWM) active clamping dc-to-dc boost converter. This technique presents ZVS commutation without additional voltage stress and a significant increase in the circulating reactive energy throughout the converter. Therefore, all of the losses for the switches are minimized, and high power density system can be realized. The characteristics are verified through simulation and experimental results.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 1999.11a
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• pp.743-746
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• 1999

In this paper, Flyback type DC/DC Switching Converter was designed, analyzed and fabricated. Worst Case Analysis(WCA) was peformed with Mathcad program and presents circuit simulation results for the in-rush current limit circuit. The value of the maximum OFF voltage stress is 131.84V, it is less than device specification(200V). The switching frequency(nominal case) and duty cycle at the wont case analysis are 75KHz and 34.62%, respectively. The maximum in-rush current presents 0.5A Those results show a possibility for use in space