• 전기학회논문지
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• 제58권10호
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• pp.1947-1953
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• 2009

Metal halide (MH) lamps have been largely used due to high luminous efficiency, good color rendering, and long life. Since the metal halide lamps have problems of high ignition voltage and acoustic resonance. Thus, the design of ballast is very difficult for engineers. This paper proposes prototype of electric ballast in order to solve above two problems. The proposed electric ballast is consisted of EMI filter, full wave rectifier circuit, active PFC, DBI(Dual Buck Inverter), dimming circuit and ignitor circuit. The DBI supplies both rectangular voltage and current to the lamp. As the result of the experiment, the acoustic resonance was eliminated and the ignitor circuit was designed to generate high ignition voltage than 5kV. It makes the dimming circuit possible to control the lamp power in range between 230W and 350W.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제53권10호
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• pp.40-47
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 휴대기기에 적합한 모드 전환 제어 가능한 듀얼 모드 벅 변환기를 제안한다. 기존의 모드 제어 회로는 부하의 변동이 급격하거나 천천히 변동하거나 둘 중 하나의 조건에서만 모드 전환이 이루어지는 문제점을 슬로우 클럭을 이용한 모드 제어 회로 기법으로 해결하였다. 그리고 PFM(Pulse Frequency Modulation) 모드에서 PWM(Pulse Width Modulation) 벅 변환기로 전환할 때에도 카운터를 사용하여 고부하를 감지할 수 있도록 하였으며 3비트의 디지털 신호로 20mA~90mA내에서 모드 전환 시점을 선택할 수 있도록 설계하였다. 이 회로는 BCDMOS 0.18um 2-poly 3-metal 공정으로 제작되었으며, 측정 결과 입력전압 3.7V, 출력전압 1.2V 부하 전류 10uA~500mA 범위에서 32mV 이하의 출력 전압 리플을 가지며 86%의 최대 전력 변환 효율을 나타내었다.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.519-527
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• 2012

A high step-down multiple-output LED driver is proposed in this paper. Firstly, the derivation of the driver with dual-output is presented and its operation principle and steady state performance are analyzed in detail. Secondly, a high step-down N-channel LED driver is proposed and its current auto-balance characteristic and step-down ratio are analyzed. Finally, an experimental prototype is built and the experimental results are given. The theoretical analysis and experimental results show that the proposed driver has the following virtues: First, if load balancing is achieved, the voltage gain is 1/N that of a Buck driver, where N is the number of channels. Second, each output automatically has an equal output current, without requiring more current close-loop control circuits than a Buck driver. Last, the voltage stresses of the switches and diodes are lower than those of a Buck driver, meaning that lower voltage switches and diodes can be used, and a higher efficiency can be expected.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.802-809
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• 2014

This paper presents a dual-mode bias modulator (BM) for complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) power amplifiers (PAs). The BM includes a hybrid buck converter and a normal buck converter for an envelope tracking (ET) mode for high output power and for an average power tracking (APT) mode for low output power, respectively. The dual-mode BM and CMOS PA are designed using a $0.18-{\mu}m$ CMOS process for the 1.75 GHz band. For the 16-QAM LTE signal with a peak-to-average power ratio of 7.3 dB and a bandwidth of 5 MHz, the PA with the ET mode exhibited a poweradded efficiency (PAE) of 39.2%, an EVM of 4.8%, a gain of 19.0 dB, and an adjacent channel leakage power ratio of -30 dBc at an average output power of 22 dBm, while the stand-alone PA has a PAE of 8% lower at the same condition. The PA with APT mode has a PAE of 21.3%, which is an improvement of 13.4% from that of the stand-alone PA at an output power of 13 dBm.

• 대한전기학회논문지:전기기기및에너지변환시스템부문B
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• 제55권4호
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• pp.224-230
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• 2006

The conventional way to implement a bidirectional converter with boost/buck has been to use two general purpose PWM ICs with a single supply voltage. In this case, when one direction mode is in operation, the other is disabled and the output of the error amplifier of the disabled IC may be saturated to a maximum value or zero. Therefore, during mode transition, a circuit which can disable the switching operation for a certain time interval is required making it impossible to get a seamless transition. In this paper, the limitations of the conventional 42V/14V bi-directional DC/DC converter implemented with general current mode PWM ICs with a single supply voltage are reviewed and a new current mode PWM controller circuit with a dual voltage system is proposed. The validity of the proposed circuit is investigated through simulation. and experiments.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SD
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• 제49권8호
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• pp.35-40
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• 2012

DC-DC 컨버터에서 넓은 범위의 부하에 대하여 높은 효율을 유지하기 위해서는 PWM과 PFM을 함께 사용하는 듀얼 모드 제어 방식이 흔히 사용된다. 듀얼 모드 벅 컨버터는 부하 조건에 따라서 PWM이나 PFM을 선택해서 동작하므로, 모드 제어를 위한 부가 회로로 인하여 칩 면적이 증가하고 제어 방식이 변경되는 구간에서는 최적화된 효율을 얻을 수 없다. 본 논문에서는 전류 모드의 PWM 제어 회로에서 사용하는 발진기 대신에 PLL 기반의 발진기를 사용함으로써 추가적인 제어 회로 없이 PWM과 PFM의 통합된 제어 방식으로 동작하는 벅 컨버터를 제안함으로써 듀얼 모드 벅 컨버터의 단점을 해결했다. 제안한 통합 제어 방식의 벅 컨버터는 PSIM 시뮬레이션을 통하여 검증하였으며, 설계된 벅 컨버터 회로를 Cadence Spectre로 시뮬레이션 결과 250mA의 부하에서 최대 효율은 94.7%이고 10mA의 경부하에서 효율은 85.4%이다.

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 2018년도 전력전자학술대회
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• pp.342-343
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• 2018

듀얼벅 인버터는 효율이 높고 누설전류가 작다는 장점을 가지지만, 단방향 전력 전달 특성으로 인해 적용범위에 한계가 존재한다. 이에 본 논문에서는 듀얼벅 인버터의 무효전력 보상을 위한 새로운 모듈레이션 기법을 제안한다. 제안하는 모듈레이션 기법을 적용할 경우 회로를 수정하지 않고 듀얼벅 인버터의 장점을 유지한 채 무효전력 출력이 가능하다. 이를 시뮬레이션 및 실험을 통해 검증하였다.

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 2019년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.37-39
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• 2019

본 논문에서는 듀얼 벅 멀티레벨 컨버터의 일반화된 회로구성을 제안한다. 기존의 멀티레벨 컨버터는 스위칭 상태 전환시암(arm)의 단락을 의미하는 슛-스루(shoot-through) 문제가 존재하므로 데드 타임이 필수적으로 요구되지만 제안되는 듀얼 벅 멀티레벨 컨버터에서는 이러한 문제점이 해결된다. 본 논문에서는 시뮬레이션과 실험을 통하여 제안되는 듀얼 벅 멀티레벨 컨버터의 효과와 유효성을 검증한다.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.143-149
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• 2016

The two-stage converter is widely used in traditional DC/AC inverter. It has several disadvantages such as complex topology, large volume and high loss. In order to overcome these shortcomings, a novel half load-cycle worked dual SEPIC single-stage inverter, which is based on the analysis of the relationship between input and output voltages of SEPIC converters operating in the discontinuous conduction mode (DCM), is presented in this paper. The traditional single-stage inverter has remarkable advantages in small and medium power applications, but it can’t realize boost DC/AC output directly. Besides one pre-boost DC/DC converter is needed between the DC source and the traditional single-stage inverter. A novel DC/AC inverter without pre-boost DC/DC converter, which is comprised of two SEPIC converters, is studied. The output of dual SEPIC converters is connected with anti-parallel and half load-cycle control is used to realize boost and buck DC/AC output directly and work properly, whatever the DC input voltage is higher or lower than the AC output voltage. The working principle, parameter selection and the control strategy of the inverters are analyzed in this paper. Simulation and experiment results verify the feasibility of the new inverter.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.226-239
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• 2018

In this paper, design and control method ZVT Interleaved Bidirectional LDC(IB-LDC) for mild-hybrid electric vehicle is proposed. The IB-LDC is composed of interleaved buck and boost converters employing an auxiliary inductor and auxiliary capacitors to achieve zero-voltage-transition. Operating principle of IB-LDC according to operation mode is introduced and mathematically analyzed in buck and boost mode. Moreover, PFM and phase control are proposed to reduce circulating current for low power range. Passive components design such as main inductor, auxiliary inductor and capacitors is suggested, considering ZVT condition and maximizing efficiency. Furthermore, a 600W prototype of ZVT IB-LDC for MHEVs is built and tested to verify validity.