• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.22 no.7
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• pp.580-583
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• 2009

This paper introduces a gate drive IC for power modules with shoot-through immunity. A new approach uses a bootstrap diode as a high-side voltage bias and a level shift function at the same time. Therefore, the gate drive circuit becomes a simple and low-cost without conventional level shift functions such as HVIC(High-Voltage IC), optocoupler and transformer. The proposed gate drive IC is designed and fabricated using the Dongbu-Hitek's 0.35um BD350BA process. It has been tested and verified with IGBT modules.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2009.04b
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• pp.81-82
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• 2009

This paper introduces a gate drive IC for power modules with shoot-through immunity. A new approach uses a bootstrap diode as a high-side voltage bias and a level shift function at the same time. Therefore, the gate drive circuit becomes a simple and low-cost without conventional level shift functions such as HVIC(High-Voltage IC), optocoupler and transformer. The proposed gate drive IC is designed and fabricated using the Dongbu-Hitek's 0.35um BD350BA process. It has been tested and verified with IGBT modules.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.46 no.3
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• pp.96-102
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• 2009

This paper deals with gate drive and power IC for high power devices(600V/200A and 1200V/150A). The proposed gate driver provides high gate driving capability (4 A source, 8 A sink), and over-current protected by means of power transistor desaturation detection. In addition, soft-shutdown function is added to reduce voltage overshoots due to parasitic inductance. This gate drive If is designed, fabricated, and tested using the Dongbu hitek 0.35um BCDMOS process.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2017.07a
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• pp.598-599
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• 2017

In motor application, High efficiency is important. So Design engineer select small gate resistor for lower switching. But There is side effect with small gate resistor. It makes large dv/dt and system request large EMI filter. It makes price increase. This paper introduce about gate drive IC which have solution both of lower loss and EMI issue.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.46 no.12
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• pp.58-65
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• 2009

In this paper, we designed high voltage gate drive IC including dead time circuit in which capacitors controlled rising time and falling time, and schimitt-triggers controlled switching voltage. Designed High voltage gate drive IC improves an efficiency of half-bridge converter by decreasing dead time variation against temperature and has variable dead time by the capacitor value. and its power dissipation, which is generated on high side part level shifter, has decreased 52 percent by short pulse generation circuit, and UVLO circuit is designed to prevent false-operation. We simulated by using Spectre of Cadence to verify the proposed circuit and fabricated in a 1.0um process.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.376-382
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• 2014

This paper proposes the pulse width modulation (PWM) control strategy for low-speed operation in the three-level neutral-point-clamped (NPC) inverters based on the bootstrap gate drive circuit. As a purpose of the cost reduction, several papers have paid attention to the bootstrap circuit applied to the three-level NPC inverter. However, the bootstrap gate driver IC cannot generate the gate signal to the IGBT for low-speed operation, because the bootstrap capacitor voltage decreases under the threshold level. For low-speed operation, the dipolar and partial-dipolar modulations can be the effective solution. However, these modulations have drawbacks in terms of the switching loss and THD. Therefore, this paper proposes the PWM control strategy to operate the inverter at low-speed and to minimize the switching loss and harmonics. The experimental results are presented to verify the validity on the proposed method.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.172-175
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• 2005

a-Si TFT는 TFT-LCD의 화소 스위칭(swiching) 소자로 폭넓게 이용되고 있다. 현재는 a-Si을 이용하여 gate drive IC를 기판에 집적하는 기술이 연구, 적용되고 있는데 이때 가장 큰 제약은 문턱 전압의 이동이다. 펄스(pulse)형태로 인가되는 gate 전압에 의한 문턱 전압 이동은 a-Si:H gate에 인가되는 펄스의 크기, duty cycle, drain pulse의 크기 및 동작 온도에 기인하며 실험결과를 통해 입증된다. 초기의 DC Stress 측정 Data를 이용하여 문턱전압이동을 모델링/시뮬레이션한 결과 a-Si:H gate 회로설계 및 펄스 조건에 따라 stress시간에 따른 gate의 출력 파형 예측이 가능하고 상온에서 Von=21V를 인가한 결과, 약 4년후에서 시프트레지스터 출력 파형이 열화되기 시작한다.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.38 no.4
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• pp.645-653
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• 2016

This paper demonstrates the performance of a metal-substrate power module with multiple fabricated chips for a high current electrical application, and evaluates the proposed module using a 1.5-kW sinusoidal brushless direct current (BLDC) motor. Specifically, the power module has a hybrid structure employing a single-layer heat-sink extensible metal board (Al board). A fabricated motor driver IC and trench gate DMOSFET (TDMOSFET) are implemented on the Al board, and the proper heat-sink size was designed under the operating conditions. The fabricated motor driver IC mainly operates as a speed controller under various load conditions, and as a multi-phase gate driver using an N-ch silicon MOSFET high-side drive scheme. A fabricated power TDMOSFET is also included in the fabricated power module for three-phase inverter operation. Using this proposed module, a BLDC motor is operated and evaluated under various pulse load tests, and our module is compared with a commercial MOSFET module in terms of the system efficiency and input current.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1992.07b
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• pp.1176-1178
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• 1992

This paper shows enhanced working performance of the battery fork-lift truck by developing the IGBT full bridge dc-dc convertor using one-chip micro-processor. The PWM pulse is generated from a 16 bit one-chip micro-processor for the speed control of DC motor. In order to ensure the operation of IGBT and motor pecewisely, IGBT gate drive circuit was designed by using current limiting IC and hige voltage limit IC. And also It is able to regenerative braking.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.37 no.6
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• pp.1165-1175
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• 2015

This paper presents an advanced sensorless permanent magnet (PM) brushless motor controller integrated circuit (IC) employing an automatic lead-angle compensator. The proposed IC is composed of not only a sensorless sine-wave motor controller but also an isolated gate-driver and current self-sensing circuit. The fabricated IC operates in sensorless mode using a position estimator based on a sliding mode observer and an open-loop start-up. For high efficiency PM brushless motor driving, an automatic lead-angle control algorithm is employed, which improves the efficiency of a PM brushless motor system by tracking the minimum copper loss under various load and speed conditions. The fabricated IC is evaluated experimentally using a commercial 200 W PM brushless motor and power switches. The proposed IC is successfully operated without any additional sensors, and the proposed algorithm maintains the minimum current and maximum system efficiency under $0N{\cdot}m$ to $0.8N{\cdot}m$ load conditions. The proposed IC is a feasible sensorless speed controller for various applications with a wide range of load and speed conditions.