• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.65 no.10
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• pp.1664-1671
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• 2016

This paper presents the analysis of the gate-source voltage of the gallium nitride high electronic mobility transistor (GaN HEMT) in the half bridge structure focused on the mutual effects of two switching operation. Especially low side gate-source voltage is analyzed mathematically according to the high side switch turn-on and turn-off operation. Moreover, the influence of each gate resistance and parasitic component on the switching characteristic of other side switch is investigated, and the formula, simulation and experimental results are compared with theoretical data.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers P
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• v.62 no.3
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• pp.145-150
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• 2013

A novel AC to DC PWM converters with unity input power factor are proposed to overcome the above shortcoming. The main function of these converters is to shape the input line current to force it exactly in phase with the input AC voltage. Therefore, the input power factor can be improved to near unity and the input current harmonics can be eliminated. In this paper, half-bridge converter with two active switches and two diodes are utilized for low-cost type UPS configuration. By having only two semiconductors in the current path at any time, losses can be reduced over the conventional boost topology. Also, this converter provides controllable dc-link voltage, high power factor, and low cost type converter by simple power circuits. Simulation results show that the proposed half-bridge converter/inverter control technique can be applied to single-phase low-cost type UPS systems successfully.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2004.07a
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• pp.364-368
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• 2004

A new high efficiency DC/DC converter is proposed, which is derived from the conventional half-bridge converter. The proposed converter has good ZVS condition compared with the conventional half-bridge converter, and shows a high efficiency by solving the unbalance voltage stress and current stress problem of secondary rectifier diode of the conventional half-bridge converter. In this paper, the basic operations of the proposed converter is analyzed compared with that of the conventional half-bridge converter, and the excellent performance of the proposed converter is verified by the experimental results with the 42W prototype of the power supply for PDP Sustain Driver.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.514-516
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• 2008

A new four level half-bridge converter is proposed in this paper. Compared to a conventional half-bridge converter and an asymmetric half-bridge converter, the proposed converter has less stress on power switching components and have smaller output inductor. Zero-voltage-switching condition is also achieved with the proposed converter. The operational principle, DC conversion ratio and ZVS analysis are presented. Experimental results are demonstrated to verify the feasibility and advantages of the new topologies.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.1593-1600
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• 2015

This paper proposes a novel compensation algorithm of current offset error for single-phase linear compressor in home appliances. In a half-bridge inverter, current offset error may cause unbalanced DC-link voltage when the DC-link is comprised of two serially connected capacitors. To compensate the current measurement error, the synchronous reference frame transformation is used for detecting the measurement error. When an offset error occurs in the output current of the half-bridge inverter, the d-axis current has a ripple with frequency equal to the fundamental frequency. With the use of a proportional-resonant controller, the ripple component can be removed, and offset error can be compensated. The proposed compensation method can easily be implemented without much computation and additional hardware circuit. The validity of the proposed algorithm is verified through experimental results.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.64-69
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• 2003

There exist the high frequency components, which can not be predicted by the low frequency model, due to the presence of sampling effect in current mode control. In this paper, the output voltage equations for the ZVS half bridge PWM convertor are derived from the steady state analysis, and the sampling gain presented in the current control loop is Investigated to improve the Prediction Performance of low frequency model of ZVS half bridge PWM converter.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers B
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• v.52 no.3
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• pp.140-146
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• 2003

In this paper, we suggested electronic ballast with the half bridge inverter for the automotive HID lamp. The electronic ballast for the automotive HID lamp should be supplied by the low-frequency square wave avoiding the acoustic resonance. When the HID lamp is hot state, the electronic ballast should supply the sufficient current to the take over to the lamp at the re-strike ignition state for a few milli-second. We have introduced the new take-over current control method that could have control operating frequency and minimize circuits to the take over current circuits.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1999.07f
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• pp.2508-2511
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• 1999

A non-contact battery charger which transfers energy using magnetic field without any electrical contacts is designed using half-bridge series resonant converter. This converter utilizes series resonance to reduce the undesirable effect of large leakage inductance of the non-contact transformer and ZVS operation can reduce switching losses. In this paper. analysis and design procedure of half-bridge series resonant converter with non-contact transformer is presented. Input voltage is 85VAC ${\sim}$ 270VAC, output voltage and current is 4.1V and 800mA, respectively. Furthermore, a method for calculating the secondary current of the transformer to control battery charging current in constant current charging mode which is required for litium-ion battery is proposed and the performance is verified from experiments.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2002.07a
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• pp.750-753
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• 2002

A novel single-stage half-bridge high frequency resonant inverter using ZVS(Zero Voltage Switching) with high input power factor suitable for induction heating applications is presented in this paper. The proposed high frequency resonant Inverter integrates half-bridge boost rectifier as power factor corrector(PFC) and half-bridge resonant inverter into a single stage. The input stage of the half-bridge boost rectifier is working in discontinuous conduction mode (DCM) with constant duty cycle and variable switching frequency. Simulation results through the Pspice have demonstrated the feasibility of the proposed inverter. This proposed inverter will be able to be practically used as a power supply in various fields as induction heating applications, DC-DC converter etc.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.169-172
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• 2004

This paper presents the Asymmetric Half-Bridge converter using current-doubler rectifier. Resonant conditions of the asymmetrical soft switching Half-Bridge converter is analyzed. Current-doubler converter has small voltage and current ripple. The comparison of topology compared to the secondary rectification for center-tap type and current-doubler type are discussed. Experimental result are obtained on a 5V, 20A DC/DC Half-Bridge converter MOSFET based prototype for the 100W.