• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.30 no.7
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• pp.432-436
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• 2017

IZO transistors with $Al_2O_3$ as gate dielectrics have been investigated. To improve permittivity in an ambient dielectric layer, we grew $Al_2O_3$ by atomic layer deposition directly onto the substrates. Then, we prepared IZO semiconductor solutions with 0.1 M indium nitrate hydrate [$In(NO_3)_3{\cdot}xH_2O$] and 0.1 M zinc acetate dehydrate [$Zn(CH_3COO)_2{\cdot}2H_2O$] as precursor solutions; the IZO solution made with a molar ratio of 7:3 was then prepared. It has been found that these oxide transistors exhibit low operating voltage, good turn-on voltage, and an average field-effect mobility of $0.90cm^2/Vs$ in ambient conditions. Studies of low-voltage driving of IZO transistors with atomic layer-deposited high-k $Al_2O_3$ as gate dielectric provide data of relevance for the potential use of these materials and this technology in transparent display devices and displays.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.586-594
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• 2014

Maximizing the operating time by reducing the power consumption is important factor to operate sensor network under water networks. For efficient power consumption, dynamic voltage scaling method is available. This method operates low frequency when there is no workload. In case of abundant workload, high frequency operation completes hard work within short time, reducing power consumption. For this reason, complex cryptography should be computed in high frequency. In this paper, we apply dynamic voltage scaling method to cryptography and show performance evaluation. With this result, we can reduce power consumption for cryptography in under water communication.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2005.10c
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• pp.326-328
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• 2005

In order to reduce the capital and overall operating cost of a fuel-cell system, a high-efficiency fuel-cell power inverter with a simple framework is required. The high-order two-inductance two-capacitance (LLCC) resonant technique is adopted in this study to implement a low-frequency 60-Hz sine wave voltage inverter utilized in the proton exchange membrane fuel-cell (PEMFC) system. The methodology for inverting dc voltage into low-frequency ac boltage is usually generated by the pulse-width-modulation (PWM) technique. However, the PWM-type inverter output has high-frequency harmonic components. Although an adequately designed filter could be utilized to overcome this problem, there are still some undesirable effects introduced by the high-frequency switching loss, electromagnetic-interference, harmonic current, and load variation. A novel power inverter via the LLCC resonant technique is designed for inverting dc voltage into 60-Hz ac sine wave voltage in the PEMFC system. This circuit scheme has the merits of low harmonic components, soft switching, high efficiency, and simplified implementation. The effectiveness of the proposed resonant inverter used for the PEMFC system is verified by numerical simulations and experimental results.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.213-218
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• 2017

High-voltage power systems operate in order to generate and transmit electric power at power stations. Compared to low-power systems, high-power systems are complex in structure, large-scale, and expensive. When high-power cable accidents occur, most facilities are incapacitated-including low-power systems-causing huge economic losses. Great care must therefore be taken in designing, installing and managing power systems. Although dependent on installation circumstances and usage conditions, in some cases the cross-sectional areas of cables fall short of the critical area due to the expansion of and improper design and installation of power facilities. In this situation, the exceeded ampacity (allowable current) above the critical value caused by the operating current initiates the deterioration processes of power cables. In order to systematically monitor power cables operating at power stations, we have developed the first device of its kind in Korea. In this paper, we present the analyzed characteristics of expected temperatures of cables based on the load current of high-voltage cables operating at Korean Western Power Co. Ltd. We can predict the lifetime of cables by analyzing the temperature obtained from our device.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2005.07d
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• pp.2942-2944
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• 2005

마이크로 프로세서의 클럭 속도를 공급 전압에 따라 변하게 하는 방법을 Dynamic Voltage Scaling 방법이라 한다. 이것은 운영체제를 내장한 컴퓨터 시스템의 에너지 소비 효율성을 높일 수 있는 매우 효과적인 방법이다. 본 논문에서는 Dynamic Voltage Scaling 방법을 응용하여 실시간 운영체제의 스케줄링 방법을 제안하였다. 이 방법은 다음에 실행할 태스크의 양을 예하여 적절하게 공급전압과 클럭 속도를 조절함으로써 에너지 소비 효율성을 높였다.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.31 no.2
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• pp.243-245
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• 2009

A novel ultra-low-power readout circuit for a pH-sensitive ion-sensitive field-effect transistor (ISFET) is proposed. It uses an ISFET/reference FET (REFET) differential pair operating in weak-inversion and a simple current-mode metal-oxide semiconductor FET (MOSFET) translinear circuit. Simulation results verify that the circuit operates with excellent common-mode rejection ability and good linearity for a single pH range from 4 to 10, while only 4 nA is drawn from a single 1 V supply voltage.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.1137-1149
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• 2017

In order to reduce the cost, improve the efficiency and simplify the complicated control of existing isolated LED drivers, an improved boundary conduction mode (BCM) Buck ac-dc light emitting diode (LED) driver with extended output voltage and low total harmonic distortion is proposed. With a coupled inductor winding and a stacked output, its output voltage can be elevated to a much higher value when compared to that of the conventional Buck ac-dc converter, without sacrificing the input harmonics and power factor. Therefore, the proposed Buck LED driver can meet the IEC61000-3-2 (Class C) limitation and has a low THD. The operating principle of the topology and the design methodology of the ac-dc LED driver are presented. A 150 W ac-dc prototype was built in the laboratory and it shows that the input current harmonics meet the lighting standard. In addition, the THD is less than 16% at a typical ac input. The peak efficiency is higher than 96.5% at a full load and a normal input.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers B
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• v.48 no.8
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• pp.448-454
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• 1999

This paper describes a new dc-ac inverter system which for achieving sinusoidal ac waveform makes use of parallel loaded high frequency resonant inverter consisting of full bridge. Each one of the pair of switches in the inverter is driven to synchronous output frequency and the other is driven to PWM signal with resonant frequency proportional to magnitude of sine wave. A forced discontinuous conduction mode is used to realize the quasi-sinusoidal pulse in each switching period. Therefore the inverter generates sinusoidal modulated output voltage including carrier frequency that is resonant frequency. Carrier frequency components of modulated output voltage is filtered by low pass filter. Since current through switches is always zero at its turn-on in the proposed inverter, low stress and low switching loss is achieved. Operating characteristics of the proposed system is analyzed in per unit system using computer simulation. The output voltage of if includes low harmonics and it is almost close to sine wave. Also, the theoretical analysis is proved through the experimental test.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.75-87
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• 2012

A design paradigm using sequential geometric programming is presented to accurately design CMOS op amps with BSIM3. It is based on new adaptive modeling of transistor parameters through the operating point simulation. This has low modeling cost as well as great simplicity and high accuracy. The short-channel dc, high-frequency small-signal, and short-channel noise models are used to characterize the physical behavior of submicron devices. For low-power and low-voltage design, this paradigm is extended to op amps operating in the subthreshold region. Since the biasing and modeling errors are less than 0.25%, the characteristics of the op amps well match simulation results. In addition, small dependency of design results on initial values indicates that a designed op amp may be close to the global optimum. Finally, the design paradigm is illustrated by optimizing CMOS op amps with accurate transfer function.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.205-211
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• 2010

In this study, a Magnetic stimulation Pulse Train control technique is introduced and applied to Flyback converter operating in discontinuous conduction mode. In contrast to the conventional pulse width modulation control scheme, the principal idea of a Magnetic stimulation Pulse Train is to achieve output voltage regulation using high and low power pulses. The proposed technique is applicable to any converter operating in discontinuous conduction. However, this work mainly focuses on Flyback topology. In this paper, the main mathematical concept of the new control algorithm is introduced and simulations as well as experimental results are presented.