• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.180-187
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• 2009

When converters operate in megahertz range, the passive components and magnetic devices generate high losses. However, the eddy current issues and choices of magnetic cores significantly affect on the design stage. Apart from that, the components' reduction, miniaturization technique and frequency scaling are required as well as improvement in thermal capability, integration technique, circuit topologies and PCB layout optimization. In transformer design, the winding and core losses give great attention to the design stage. From simulation work, it is found that E-25066 material manufactured by AVX could be the most suitable core for high frequency transformer design. By employing planar geometry topology, the material can generate significant power loss savings of more than 67% compared to other materials studied in this work. Furthermore, young researchers can use this information to develop new approaches based on concepts, issues and methodology in the design of magnetic components for high frequency applications.

• KIEE International Transaction on Electrical Machinery and Energy Conversion Systems
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• v.4B no.3
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• pp.114-121
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• 2004

Switched reluctance motors have received much attention as a driving means for various industrial applications because they have simple construction, low cost and high efficiency. Nevertheless, the requirements of drive converters make it difficult to lower the overall system cost as compared with the DC motor application. Single phase switched reluctance motors (SPSRMs) provide a solution to the high cost problem since the number of switching power devices can be reduced and consequently the trials for application are increased. However, research involving SPSRMs, especially in the area of design work, is insufficient. This paper introduces a novel design methodology of single phase SRM. The design work for SPSRM comprises the determination of many variables such as stator and rotor pole arc as well as on, off and so on. Managing all variable combinations leads to lengthy computation time and a fault in the design process. For that reason, a reliable technique and brief procedure term are required in SPSRM design.

• Journal of Magnetics
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.74-79
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• 2013

This paper proposes a sampling-based optimization method for electromagnetic design problems, where design sensitivities are obtained from the elaborate surrogate models based on the universal Kriging method and a local window concept. After inserting additional sequential samples to satisfy the certain convergence criterion, the elaborate surrogate model for each true performance function is generated within a relatively small area, called a hyper-cubic local window, with the center of a nominal design. From Jacobian matrices of the local models, the accurate design sensitivity values at the design point of interest are extracted, and so they make it possible to use deterministic search algorithms for fast search of an optimum in design space. The proposed method is applied to a mathematical problem and a loudspeaker design with constraint functions and is compared with the sensitivity-based optimization adopting the finite difference method.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1995.07c
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• pp.1146-1148
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• 1995

To improve the breakdown characteristics of vertical power devices, field limiting ring(FLR) is popularly used. In this paper, at vertical power device having $300{\sim}600V$ breakdown voltage, FLR thecnique is considered, by two dimensional computer simulator, with the various of parameters; number of FLR, seperation distance of first FLR from the main juncton and second FLR from the first FLR, doping concentration and thickness of epi-layer, etc.. Below $40{\mu}m$ epi thickness, and for the case of one FLR, the maximum breakdown voltage, 580V is obtained.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.182-188
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• 2017

An arc eliminator allows a surge current bypass rapidly into the earth to facilitate the circuit breaking process and increase the stability of the load circuit. Thomson coil actuator (TCA) is a type of actuator that can function as an arc eliminator. The TCA has a simple structure and significantly rapid speed compared to the other types of actuators. In this paper, significant variables, which have a dominant effect on the performance of the TCA, are investigated in detail. Using these variables and an optimization algorithm, an optimal design strategy for the TCA is proposed in this research. The efficacy of the proposed optimal design strategy and the feasibility of the application of the designed TCA for a high power circuit breaker as the arc eliminators are validated through the experiment.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers B
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• v.52 no.6
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• pp.247-253
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• 2003

A novel finite element mesh regeneration method is presented for 3D shape optimization of electromagnetic devices. The method has its theoretical basis in the structural deformation of an elastic body. When the shape of the electromagnetic devices changes during the optimization process, a proper 3D finite element mesh can be easily obtained using the method from the initial mesh. For real engineering problems, the method guarantees a smooth shape with proper mesh quality, and maintains the same mesh topology as the initial mesh. Application of the optimum design of an electromagnetic shielding plate shows the effectiveness of the presented method.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1996.07a
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• pp.238-240
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• 1996

This paper presents the optimum design of the slit type linear induction motor(LIM). For the analysis of the slit type LIM, as the boundary problem, the equivalent circuit is composed from the analysis method given the slit pitch boundary condition. Using the deterministic method and the stochastic method among the optimization methods, each of the optimum design variables is derived. The analysis result by the proposed method is compared with the experimental result.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2003.04a
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• pp.163-165
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• 2003

Over the past several years, the application extent of the real-time systems is being expanded with the progress of civilization. An effort to minimize power consumption at the system is being accomplished in several fields from the design of an analog/digital circuit up to the device level Things of this effort have included the power optimum-technique to minimize power consumption at the digital logic circuit and the dynamic managed skill by means o( the decision of the operating system. In this paper, we designed of low power system by using Power-optimized method. As an effective low-power design, we designed the low power system which it has a monitoring system within the main board and a personal computer.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1997.07a
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• pp.195-197
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• 1997

In this paper, the optimal design of interior permanent magnet synchronous motors for electric vehicle driver system is achieved to maximize the torque in constant torque region. Initial design is peformed taking into account load characteristics of electric vehicle and we use sequential uncostrained minimization techniques. In the results, the torque in constant torque region is improved about 13.5%.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.2271-2276
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• 2015

A superconducting synchronous generator (SCSG) can be expected to decrease the size and weight compared to conventional tidal current generators. This paper proposes an optimal design of a 2 MW class SCSG for a tidal current power generation system. The proposed optimal design of the SCSG will reduce the length of the high-temperature superconducting wire as well as the weight and volume of the SCSG. The 3D finite element method is used to analyze the magnetic field distribution. The optimized 2 MW SCSG is compared with a 2 MW conventional generator. As the optimized SCSG is more compact and lighter than a conventional generator, it will be efficiently applied to practical tidal power systems.