• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보디스플레이학회 2005년도 International Meeting on Information Displayvol.I
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• pp.301-302
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• 2005

A low-power gate driver IC, which can be used for TFT-LCD application, is proposed. The short-circuit current of the output buffer is greatly reduced. An experimental prototype gate driver implemented in a $0.35-{\mu}m$ CMOS technology demonstrates that the power reduction of 16 % is obtained.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.294-300
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• 2007

This paper deals with a design of a bootstrap power supply using snubber energy regeneration, which is used to power a high-side gate driver of a half-bridge circuit. In the proposed circuit, the energy stored in the low-side snubber capacitor is transferred to the high-side bootstrap capacitor without any magnetic components. Thus, the power dissipation in the RCD snubber can be effectively reduced. The operation principle and design method of the proposed circuit are presented. The experimental results are also provided to show the validity of the proposed circuit.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2008

This paper presents electromagnetic interference(EMI) suppression method applied on the direct current(DC) motor driver for power tail gate control. EMI noise is generated by the fast switching of power devices connected to electric loads. It has become a matter of concern because of the vast increase in the number and sophistication of electronic system in automotive environment. The proposed EMI reduction method is based on the principle of reducing the transient speed of power devices by changing the parameters of the driver circuit related to the power MOSFET. In this paper, power losses were calculated by loss equations and thermal simulation was used to evaluate the effect on printed circuit board. Based on these results, the DC motor driver was fabricated and tested. The proposed method can help to design a DC motor driver which allows it to obtain an acceptable compromise between power losses and EMI.

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 2012년도 전력전자학술대회 논문집
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• pp.230-231
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• 2012

This paper describes a gate driver that operates numerous semiconductor switch in the solide-state pulsed power modulator. the proposed gate driver is designed to receive both the isolated drive-power and the on/off pulse signals through the transformer. Moreover, the IGBT-switch can be quickly turned off by adding protection circuit. Therefore it protects the IGBT-switch from the arc condition that frequently occurs in high-voltage pulse application. To comprehend operating characteristic of each IGBT-switch in pulse output condition, the device consisting of a high efficiency soft-switching capacitor charger and two series stacking IGBT-switch is developed. Finally, the relability of the proposed gate driver and the device for its test are proved through PSpice simulation and experiments.

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 2014년도 전력전자학술대회 논문집
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• pp.285-286
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• 2014

Recently, the unipolar gate power source is preferred in inverter system because of cost reduction reason. In this case, designer uses 0V source for turning-off the switching devices instead of negative voltage at Vee source. If the gate driver circuit has some stray inductance, the gate voltage would happen a surge voltage. This paper analyzes that of stray inductance effect during the switching behavior in the circuit and the proposed solutions were verified by pulse test.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.1382-1390
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• 2017

This paper presents a power supply for gate drivers, which uses a magnetic resonance wireless power transfer system. Unlike other methods where multiple antennas are used to supply power for the gate drivers, the proposed method uses a single antenna in an insulated receiver to make multiple mutually isolated power supplies. The power transmitted via single antenna is distributed to multiple power supplies for gate drivers through resonant capacitors connected in parallel that also block DC bias. This approach has many advantages over other methods, where each gate driver needs to be supplied with power using multiple receiver antennas. The proposed method will therefore lead to a reduction in production costs and circuit area. Because the proposed circuit uses a high resonance frequency of 6.78 MHz, it is possible to implement a transmitter and a receiver using a small-sized spiral printed-circuit-board-type antenna. This paper used a single phase-leg circuit configuration to experimentally verify the performance characteristics of the proposed method.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SD
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• 제46권12호
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• pp.58-65
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 캐패시터로 상승 시간과 하강 시간을 조절하고 슈미트 트리거의 스위칭 전압을 이용한 데드 타임 회로를 갖는 고전압 구동 IC (High Voltage Gate Driver IC)를 설계하였다. 설계된 고전압 구동 IC는 기존 회로와 비교하여 온도에 따 른 데드 타임 변동을 약 52% 줄여 하프브리지 컨버터의 효율을 증대시켰으며 캐패시터 값에 따라 가변적인 데드 타임을 가진다. 또한 숏-펄스 (short-pulse) 생성회로를 추가하여 상단 레벨 쉬프트 (High side part Level shifter)에서 발생하는 전력소모를 기존의 회로에 비해 52% 감소 시켰고, UVLO를 추가하여 시스템의 오동작을 방지하여 시스템의 안정도를 향상시켰다. 제안한 회로를 검증하기 위해 Cadence의 Spectre을 이용하여 시뮬레이션 하였고 1.0um 공정을 이용하였다.

• Journal of Information Display
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.5-8
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• 2006

A novel a-Si TFT integrated gate driver circuit using multi-thread driving has been developed. The circuit consists of two independent shift registers alternating between the two modes, "wake" and "sleep". The degradation of the circuit is retarded because the bias stress is removed during the sleep mode. It has been successfully integrated in 14.1-in. XGA LCD Panel, showing enhanced stability.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.111-121
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• 1999

대용량 IGBT를 위한 새로운 능동 게이트 구동회로를 제안한다. IGBT의 우수한 스위칭 성능을 성취하기 위해 필요한 여러 구동 조건들을 최적으로 조합시킨 게이트 구동 회로이다. 스위칭 노이즈와 스트레스를 감소시키기 위해 필요한 느린 구동 조건과 스위칭 속도를 증가시키고 손실을 저감시키기 위해 요구되는 고속 구동 조건들을 동시에 만족시키고 있다. 또한 작은 전류의 턴-온시 발생되는 진동현상을 효과적으로 감쇠시킬 수 있는 특성을 지니고 있다.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1996년도 하계학술대회 논문집 B
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• pp.1304-1306
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• 1996

A regenerative signal amplifying gate driver of self-excited electronic ballast is presented. It can be used for high pressure sodium (HPS) lamp without auxiliary external ignitor. Since the HPS lamp requires very high ignition voltage at start up, the resonant frequency of the circuit must be increased to obtain high voltage oscillations in spite of relatively small resonant current. The presented gate driver amplifies the current of gate drive transformer and raises the gate-source voltage Quickly to turn on the MOSFET switches. Hence, the resonant frequency can be increased more than 100kHz. The HPS lamp used in the simulation and experiment has the rating of 400W input power at 220V input ac voltage source. The experiments show that the resonant frequency is above 150kHz at start up.