• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2002.11d
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• pp.194-196
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• 2002

액정표시장치(LCD; Liquid Crystal Display)는 표현된 정보를 가시화하기 위해 램프의 백라이트가 필수적인데 대부분 부피가 작고 효율과 휘도특성이 좋은 냉음극 방전램프가 사용된다. 램프는 고압으로 구동되며 높은 전압을 얻기 위해 일반적으로 권선 변압기를 사용한다. 그러나 권선 변압기의 경우 자체의 철심이나 권선의 손실로 인하여 출력 효율의 한계가 있으며, 고압을 위해 감긴 코일은 부피를 크게 하며 무겁게 만든다 이를 해결하기 위해 변압기 자체 손실을 줄이고 소형화가 가능하며 높은 승압비을 가진 PAN-PZT계의 적층형 압전 변압기를 제작하였다. 또한 회로의 손실을 줄이기 위한 영전압 스위칭(ZVS; Zero Voltage Switching)과 그리고 LCD패널과 인버터의 불필요한 간섭현상(EMI; Electro-Magnetic Interference)을 줄일 수 있으며 소형화가 가능한 하프 브리지형 압전 인버터를 설계하였다.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.544-552
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• 2009

This paper presents a novel spring pressure contact interconnect technique for medium power integrated power electronics modules (IPEMs). The key technology of this interconnection is a spring which is made from Be-Cu alloy. By means of the string pressure contact, sufficient press-contact force and good electrical interconnection can be achieved. Another important advantage is that the spring exhibits excellent performance in enduring thermo-mechanical stress. In terms of manufacture procedure, it is also comparatively simple. A 4 kW half-bridge power inverter module is fabricated to demonstrate the performance of the proposed pressure contact technique. Electrical, thermal and mechanical test results of the packaged device are reported. The results of both the simulation and experiment have proven that a good performance can be achieved by the proposed pressure contact technique for the medium power IPEMs.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2017.07a
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• pp.128-129
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• 2017

기존 Induction Heating용 인버터의 경우, 일반적인 Half-Bridge 인버터를 사용하여 낮은 효율이 발생하기 때문에 고효율 구동이 어렵고, Single Switch 인버터를 사용할 경우 높은 전압 스트레스로 인해 고효율 및 고출력 IH 인버터 구동이 어려운 문제점이 있다. 본 논문은 Induction Heating용 인버터의 원가를 감소시키고 고효율/고출력을 낼 수 있는 스위치 내압 저감용 ZVS Signle Switch 인버터를 제안한다. 기존의 IH 구동용 인버터를 사용할 경우에는 낮은 효율 및 높은 스위치의 전압 스트레스 때문에, 회로의 전체적인 부피가 커지고 제작단가가 증가하는 단점이 있다. 반면 제안된 회로는 IH 구동용 스위치 내압 저감이 가능한 ZVS Single Switch 인버터로써, 단일 스위치 회로 구현과 영전압 스위칭을 통해 높은 효율로 인버터 구동이 가능하고, 스위치 내압을 감소하였기 때문에 회로의 부피 및 원가를 감소시킬 수 있는 장점을 갖는다. 본 논문에서는 제안된 회로의 이론적이 특성을 분석하고 모의실험을 통해 확인하였으며, 2.6kW급 IH 구동 인버터 회로에 적용하여 실험을 통해 우수성을 검증하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2002.05a
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• pp.176-179
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• 2002

Nowadays, CO2 lasers are used widely in many applications such as materials fabrication. communications, remote sensing and military purpose etc. It is important to control the laser output power in those fields. In this paper, current resonant half-bridge inverter and Cockcraft-Walton circuit are used to vary the laser output power. This laser power supply is designed and fabricated which has less switching losses and compact size. Also we used an IGBT(insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor) as a switching device of a power supply and PIC one-chip microprocessor are used to control the gate signal of the IGBT precisely. We investigated the output characteristics of this CO2 laser. As a result. the maximum laser output power of 26 [W] is obtained at the resonant frequency of about 13 [kHz].

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2019.07a
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• pp.156-158
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• 2019

낮은 저항 용기를 가열할 수 있는 유도 가열 장치는 유도가열 장치용 하프 브릿지 직렬 공진형 인버터의 높은 입력 전압과 높은 턴 수의 코일을 통해 낮은 저항의 용기를 가열한다. 그러나 자성체 용기는 높은 턴 수의 코일에서 높은 저항 값을 가지므로 적절한 전력을 내기 위해서는 높은 입력 전압이 필요하다. 이러한 경우 부스트 토폴로지의 역률 개선 회로를 사용할 수 있다. 하지만 입력 전압의 변동에 따라 직렬 공진형 인버터의 출력 전력 제어를 위한 동작 점 변동이 필요하므로 인버터의 손실이 변동한다. 본 논문에서는 낮은 저항 용기를 가열하기 위하여 높은 턴 수의 코일을 탑재한 유도 가열 장치용 하프 브릿지 직렬 공진형 인버터에서 자성체 용기의 가열 시 입력 전압 변동에 따른 인버터의 손실 분석을 통해 최적의 입력전압 조건을 선정하고자 한다. 제안하는 입력전압 선정 기법은 2-kW 급 유도 장치용 하프 브릿지 직렬 공진형 인버터 시 제품을 통해 타당성을 검증한다.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.490-500
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• 2017

Fuel cell (FC) is a promising power supply in electric vehicles (EV); however, it has poor dynamic performance and short service life. To address these shortcomings, a super capacitor (SC) is adopted as an auxiliary power supply. In this study, the frequency decoupling control method is used in electric vehicle energy system. High-frequency and low-frequency demand power is provided by SC and FC, respectively, which makes full use of two power supplies. Simultaneously, the energy system still has rapidity and reliability. The distributed power system (DPS) of EV requires DC-DC converters to achieve the desired voltage. The stability of cascaded converters must be assessed. Impedance-based methods are effective in the stability analysis of DPS. In this study, closed-loop impedances of interleaved half-bridge DC-DC converter and phase-shifted full-bridge DC-DC converter based on the frequency decoupling control method are derived. The closed-loop impedance of an inverter for permanent magnet synchronous motor based on space vector modulation control method is also derived. An improved Middlebrook criterion is used to assess and adjust the stability of the energy system. A theoretical analysis and simulation test are provided to demonstrate the feasibility of the energy management system and the control method.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.9-17
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• 2002

A high-efficiency electronic ballast for HID lamps is presented. The ballast consists of a PFC and a resonant inverter. To reduce losses of the ballast, DC link voltage should be determined by taking into account the peak voltage of lamp and the maximum flux density should be kept 0.2[T] on all of inductors. AR inductor at bridge diode is employed in order to remove currant harmonics from PFC. An inductor is connected in series with an electrolytic capacitor at DC link to reject high-frequency current. The acoustic resonance is eliminated using the stead spectrum technique. The electronic ballast for 250[W] metal-halide discharge lamp is implemented and 96[%] efficiency, no acoustic resonance and low conducted EMI level are accomplished.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.9-15
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• 2004

The most shortcoming of metalhalide lamps is what the instant restarting cannot be realized when the arc tube is in the hot condition. The discharge starting voltage of arc tube in the hot condition is much higher than in the cold condition. Therefore it takes about five minutes to restart the metalhalide lamps, that is to say, it is possible to start when the pressure and the temperature are decreased. But, if the lamp is restarted in the hot condition, we must supply the high voltage pulse with 20[kV] at the both electrode of lamp. The proposed electronic ballast is consist of a electromagnetic interference(EMI) filter, a power factor correction(PFC) circuit, a flyback converter, a half-bridge inverter, and a high voltage igniter circuit. By this composition we can start/restart the lamp with the voltage 20[kV], even if the lamp is in the hot condition.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.922-933
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• 2019

The arm inductance (AI) of a modular multilevel converter (MMC) affects both the fault and circulating current magnitudes. In addition, it has an impact on the inverter efficiency and harmonic content. In this study, the AI of a three-phase MMC is optimized in a novel way in terms of DC voltage utilization, harmonics and efficiency. This MMC has 10 submodules (SM) per arm and the power circuit topology of the SM is a half-bridge. The optimum AI is adopted and verified in an MMC that has 100 SMs per arm. Then the phase shift (PS) and phase disposition (PD) pulse width modulation (PWM) methods are investigated for better DC voltage utilization, efficiency and harmonics. It is found that similar performances are obtained for both modulation techniques in terms of DC voltage utilization. However, the total harmonic distortion (THD) of the PS-PWM is found to be 0.02%, which is slightly lower than the THD of the PD-PWM at 0.16%. In efficiency calculations, the switching and conduction losses for all of the semiconductor are considered separately and the minimum efficiency of the 100-SM based MMC is found to be 99.62% for the PS-PWM and 99.64% for the PD-PWM with the optimal value of the AI. Simulation results are verified with an experimental prototype of a 6-SM based MMC.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.70-79
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• 2003

In this paper, T5 28-watt fluorescent lamp ballast using a piezoelectric transformer is fabricated and its characteristic is investigated. Developed electronic ballast is composed of basic circuits and blocks, such as rectifier part, active power factor corrector part, frequency oscillation part using microcontroller and feedback control, piezoelectric transformer and resonant half bridge inverters. The fabricated ballast uses to variable frequency methode in external so exciting that the frequency of piezoelectric transformer could be generated by voltage control oscillator using microcontroller(AT90S4433). The current of fluorescent lamp is detected by feedback control circuit. The signal of inverter output is received using Piezoelectric transformer, and then its output transmitted to fluorescent lamp. Traditional electromagnetic ballasts operated at 50-60Hz have been suffered from noticeable flicker, high loss, large crest factor and heavy weight. A new electronic ballast is operated at high frequency about 75kHz, and then Input power factor, distortion of total harmonic and lamp current crest factor are measured about 0.9!35, 12H and 1.5, respectively Accordingly, the traditional ballast is by fabricated electronic ballast using piezoelectric transformer and voltage control oscillator because of its lighter weight, high efficiency, economic merit and saving energy.