• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.21 no.8
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• pp.719-726
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• 2008

In this paper, we designed driving IC for 500 V resonant half-bridge type power converter, In this single-ended level shifter, chip area and power dissipation was decreased by 50% and 23.5% each compared to the conventional dual-ended level shifter. Also, this newly designed circuit solved the biggest problem of conventional flip-flop type level shifter in which the power MOSFET were turned on simultaneously due to the large dv/dt noise. The proposed high side level shifter included switching noise protection circuit and schmmit trigger to minimize the effect of displacement current flowing through LDMOS of level shifter when power MOSFET is operating. The designing process was proved reasonable by conducting Spectre and PSpice simulation on this circuit using 1${\mu}m$ BCD process parameter.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.463-464
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• 2008

As the demands of LCD and PDP TV are increasing, the high performance HVICs(High Voltage Gate Driver ICs) technology is becoming more necessary. In this paper, we designed the HVIC that has enhanced noise immunity and high driving capability. It can operate at 500KHz switching frequency and permit 600V input voltage. High-side level shifter is designed with noise protection circuit and schmitt trigger. Therefore it has very high dv/dt immunity, the maximum being 50V/ns. The HVIC was designed using $1{\mu}m$ BCD 650V process and verified by Spectre and PSpice of Cadence inc. simulation.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2003.07b
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• pp.593-597
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• 2003

Multilevel power conversion technology has received increasing attention recently for high power applications. The converters with the technology are suitable for high voltage and high power applications due to their ability to synthesize waveforms with better harmonic spectrum and apply for the high voltage equipment with a limited voltage rating of device. In the family of multilevel inverters, the topologies based on cascaded H-bridges are particularly attractive because of their modularity and simplicity of control. This paper presents multilevel inverter with cascaded H-bridge for large-power motor drives. The main features of this drive 1) reduce harmonic injection 2) can generate near-sinusoidal voltages, 3) have almost no common-mode voltage; 4) are low dv/dt at output voltage; 5)do not generate significant over-voltage on motor terminal; The topology of the developed product is presented and the feasibility study of the inverter on 3300v 1MVA 7-level H-bridge type was tarried out with experiments.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.1 no.4
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• pp.528-533
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• 2006

Electrical discharges may occur in gas, liquid as well as solid insulating materials. This paper describes the investigation results on the discharges in air, silicone oil and low density polyethylene (LDPE) using needle plane electrode system under AC voltage of 50 Hz. The experimental results showed that for discharge in air (corona), discharge pulses were concentrated around the peak of applied voltage at negative half cycle. For silicone oil positive as well as negative discharges were observed which concentrated around the peak of applied voltage. The positive pulse number was smaller but the magnitude was higher than that of negative discharge. Discharges in void took place at wider range of phase of applied voltage. The unbalance in pulse number and magnitude similar to that of oil discharges were observed. For electrical treeing in LDPE, the discharges were spread before the zero cross of the applied voltage up to the peak at both positive and negative half cycles. The discharge pulse sequence analysis indicated that the PD occurrence in air, oil and void were strongly affected by the magnitude of applied voltage. However, for electrical treeing it was observed that the discharge occurrence was strongly affected by the time derivative of the applied voltage (dv/dt).

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2006.07b
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• pp.972-973
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 고압전동기를 직접 드라이브 할 수 있는 H-브릿지 멀티레벨 인버터를 제안한다. 전동기의 부하장치로는 에디커런트 다이나모메타를 사용하였다. H-브릿지 멀티레벨 인버터는 여러 개의 단상 Power Cell을 직렬로 연결함으로써 저전압 전력용 반도체를 사용하여 고전압을 얻을 수 있고, 정현파에 가까운 출력전압 파형을 얻을 수 있는 멀티레벨 인버터 토폴로지이다. H-브릿지 멀티레벨 인버터의 주요 장점은 Power Cell의 모듈화, 셀 단위의 보호동작 용이, 확장성 향상 그리고 제어 신호 및 Power Cell의 신뢰성 향상에 있다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 H-브릿지 멀티레벨 인버터는 상당 3개의 Power Cell이 직렬로 연결되어 총 9개의 Power Cell로 구성이 되어, 선간전압은 13레벨이며 dv/dt가 적으며 입력 단 THD를 크게 낮출 수 있다. 정격용량 180kVA 이고 출력전압이 480V인 H-브릿지 멀티레벨 인버터를 제작하여 와전류 다이나모메타 부하 시험을 통해 제안된 방법의 타당성과 신뢰성을 입증하였다.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.936-945
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• 2016

Large magnitude common-mode voltage (CMV) and its variation dv/dt have an adverse effect on motor drives that leads to early winding failure and bearing deterioration. For matrix converters, the switch states that connect each output line to a different input phase result in the lowest CMV among all of the valid switch states. To reduce the output CMV for matrix converters, this paper presents a new space vector modulation (SVM) strategy by utilizing these switch states. By this mean, the peak value and the root mean square of the CMV are dramatically decreased. In comparison with the conventional SVM methods this strategy has a similar computation overhead. Experiment results are shown to validate the effectiveness of the proposed modulation method.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2001.07a
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• pp.464-466
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• 2001

The advantage of the squirrel cage induction motor is the brushless rotor. This advantage for operation and maintenance turns out to be a disadvantage for the detection of the cage rotor bar and endring defects, which means that the detection of cage faults is due to the measurement and analysis of only the stator input signals. The monitoring task in an inverter drive is complicated mainly because the voltage and current waveforms are nonsinusoidal and the high dv/dt values from fast switching inverterd distort the measurements. in this paper, we are going to discuss the detection method of broken rotor bar of squirrel cage induction motor by the motor current signal analysis(MCSA).

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.1006-1017
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• 2015

This paper presents a finite control set model predictive control (FCS-MPC) strategy for the AC/DC matrix converter used in grid-connected battery energy storage system (BESS). First, to control the grid current properly, the DC current is also included in the cost function because of input and output direct coupling. The DC current reference is generated based on the dynamic relationship of the two currents, so the grid current gains improved transient state performance. Furthermore, the steady state error is reduced by adding a closed-loop. Second, a Luenberger observer is adopted to detect the AC input voltage instead of sensors, so the cost is reduced and the reliability can be enhanced. Third, a switching state pre-selection method that only needs to evaluate half of the active switching states is presented, with the advantages of shorter calculation time, no high dv/dt at the DC terminal, and less switching loss. The robustness under grid voltage distortion and parameter sensibility are discussed as well. Simulation and experimental results confirm the good performance of the proposed scheme for battery charging and discharging control.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.727-743
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• 2019

This paper presents a pulse-width modulation strategy to eliminate the common mode voltage (CMV) with reduced CMV spikes in multilevel inverters since a high CMV magnitude and its fast variations dv/dt result in bearing failure of motors, overvoltage at motor terminals, and electromagnetic interference (EMI). The proposed method only utilizes the zero CMV states in a space vector diagram and it is implemented by a carrier-based pulse-width modulation (CBPWM) method. This method is generalized for odd number levels of inverters including neutral-point-clamped (NPC) and cascaded H-bridge inverters. Then it is extended to the over-modulation mode. The over-modulation mode is implemented by using the two-limit trajectory principle to maintain linear control and to avoid look-up tables. Even though the CMV is eliminated, CMV spikes that can cause EMI and bearing current problems still exist due to the deadtime effect. As a result, the deadtime effect is analyzed. By taking the deadtime effect into consideration, the proposed method is capable of reducing CMV spikes. Simulation and experimental results verify the effectiveness of the proposed strategy.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2020.08a
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• pp.271-273
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• 2020

SiC 기반의 전력용 반도체 소자들은 스위칭 속도가 빠르고 높은 차단 전압을 가져 dv/dt가 크다. 중전압 이상에서 게이트 드라이버에 절연된 전원 공급을 하기 위해 소형 변압기가 사용된다. 하지만 변압기의 1, 2 차 권선 사이에 수십 pF 이상의 기생 커패시턴스가 존재하며, 높은 전압을 고속으로 스위칭 하게 될 경우 기생 커패시턴스를 통해 제어부로 공통 모드 전류가 흘러 오작동을 야기할 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 변압기를 대체하여 무선전력전송 코일을 이용한 게이트 드라이버용 절연된 전원공급 장치를 제안한다. 무선전력전송 코일 사이의 거리를 수 mm 이상 이격시켜 코일 사이의 기생 커패시턴스를 1 pF 이하로 줄이고 높은 절연 특성을 가질 수 있다. 무선전력 전송의 공진 토폴로지는 직렬-병렬을 선택했고, 2 MHz에서 높은 효율을 갖도록 I-core 코일을 2.2cm × 1.5cm × 1.7cm으로 제작해 검증했다.