• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.221-227
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• 2017

A new approach to designing a broadband and highly efficient class-E power amplifier based on nonlinear shunt capacitance analysis is proposed. The nonlinear shunt capacitance method accurately extracts optimum class-E power amplifier parameters, including an external shunt capacitance and an output impedance, at different frequencies. The dependence of the former parameter on the frequency is considered to select an optimal value of external shunt capacitor. Then, upon determining the latter parameter, an output matching network is optimized to obtain the highest efficiency across the bandwidth of interest. An analytical approach is presented to design the broadband class-E power amplifier of a MOSFET transistor. The proposed method is experimentally verified by a 140-170 MHz class-E power amplifier design with maximum added power efficiency of 82% and output power of 34 dBm.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.66-73
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• 2016

The quantity of alternating current (AC) leakage and the value of distortion factor in capacitor currents are discussed with regard to a new power component called variable capacitance device (VCD). This component has terminals for controlling its capacitance. Nonlinear dielectric characteristics are utilized in this device to vary the capacitance. When VCD operates in an AC circuit, the AC leakage from this device through direct current (DC) control voltage source increases according to the conditions of DC control voltage and so on. To solve this problem, we propose techniques for suppressing AC leakage. Although VCD has strong nonlinear characteristics, the current through the capacitor is not distorted significantly. The relations between AC leakage and the distortion in current waveforms are investigated. An application example for an AC power regulator is also introduced to evaluate the distortion in waveforms.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.143-149
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• 2016

This work presents a method used for designing a broadband class-E power amplifier that combines the two techniques of a nonlinear shunt capacitance and a low quality factor of a series resonator. The nonlinear shunt capacitance theory accurately extracts the value of class-E components. In addition, the quality factor of the series resonator was considered to obtain a wide bandwidth for the power amplifiers. The purpose of using this method was to produce a simple topology and a high efficiency, which are two outstanding features of a class-E power amplifier. The experimental results show that a design was created using from a 130 to 180 MHz frequency with a bandwidth of 32% and a peak measured power added efficiency of 84.8%. This prototype uses an MRF282SR1 MOSFET transistor at a 3-W output power level. Furthermore, a summary of the experimental results compared with other high-efficiency articles is provided to validate the advantages of this method.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.175-183
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• 1999

PWM 컨버터에서 직류출력전압의 빠른 응답을 위해 입력 및 출력의 전력평형개념을 시스템 모델링에 도입하는 것이 바람직하다. 이 경우 시스템은 비선형이 되며 제어기 설계가 용이하지 않다. 본 논문에서는 입출력 궤환선형화 기법을 응용하여 시스템의 비선형성을 제거하였으며 그 결과 빠른 전압응답특성을 얻을 수 있었다. 또한 작은 용량의 전해커패시터를 사용하더라도 부하변동에 대해 직류출력전압을 일정하게 유지하는 것이 가능함을 보였다.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2003년도 제5회 영호남 학술대회 논문집
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• pp.126-129
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• 2003

The electrical properties of a ZnO-based multilayered chip varistor (abbreviated as MLV) were studied as functions of firing condition and the degree of lamination. The fundamental varistor characteristics such as nonlinear coefficient and breakdown voltage were independent of the degree of lamination. As the number of the laminated ceramic sheets increased, however, not only the energy handling capability but also the capacitance and the leakage current which are relevant to delayed response to the voltage surge and the pre-breakdown energy loss, respectively, increased. With the increase of firing temperature between $950^{\circ}C$ and $1150^{\circ}C$, both the capacitance and the leakage current of the MLV increased due mainly to the grain growth of ZnO and the volatilization of $BiO_2O_3$. High performance MLVs with clear electrode pattern were obtained at the firing temperature range of $l000{\sim}1050^{\circ}C$ in this experiment.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.68-73
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• 2014

A linear stacked field-effect transistor (FET) power amplifier (PA) is implemented using a $0.18-{\mu}m$ silicon-on-insulator CMOS process for W-CDMA handset applications. Phase distortion by the nonlinear gate-source capacitance ($C_{gs}$) of the common-source transistor, which is one of the major nonlinear sources for intermodulation distortion, is compensated by employing a PMOS linearizer with improved AM-PM. The linearizer is used at the gate of the driver-stage instead of main-stage transistor, thereby avoiding excessive capacitance loading while compensating the AM-PM distortions of both stages. The fabricated 836.5 MHz linear PA module shows an adjacent channel leakage ratio better than -40 dBc up to the rated linear output power of 27.1 dBm, and power-added efficiency of 45.6% at 27.1 dBm without digital pre-distortion.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SD
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• 제43권12호
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• pp.33-39
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• 2006

나노 스케일 벌크 MOSFET의 RF 비선형 특성을 넓은 bias영역에 걸쳐 정확히 예측하기 위하여 내된 비선형 요소들을 가진 엠피리컬 비선형 모델이 새롭게 구축되었다. 먼저, 나노 스케일 벌크 MOSFET에 적합한 파라미터 추출방법을 사용하여 측정된 S-파라미터로부터 bias 종속 내부 파라미터 곡선을 추출하였다. 그 후에 비선형 캐패시턴스 및 전류원 방정식들은 추출된 bias 종속 곡선들과 3차원 fitting함으로서 엠피리컬하게 구하여졌다. 이와 같이 모델된 S-파라미터는 60nm MOSFET의 측정치와 20GHz 까지 아주 잘 일치하였으며, 이는 엠피리컬 나노 MOSFET 모델의 정확도를 증명한다

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.459-465
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• 2017

This paper describes a performance analysis of self-excited eddy current brake(SECB). Stator winding of SECB is connected by capacitor instead of voltage source, and SECB's braking force is generated by L-C resonance. SECB has wide range of driving and nonlinear inductance as well. Therefore, it is important to select capacitance based on the value of inductance. This paper discusses about the process of deciding capacitance and the change of resonance frequency based on the inductance change in each speed. Also the braking force was confirmed by the experimental model of SECB.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제58권7호
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• pp.1386-1392
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• 2009

An analysis is presented for super-high-speed optical demodulation by an avalanche photodiode(APD) with electric mixing. A normalized gain is defined to evaluate the performance of the optical mixing detection. Unlike previous work, we include the effect of the nonlinear variation of the APD capacitance with bias voltage as well as the effect of parasitic and amplifier input capacitance. As a results, the normalized gain is dependent on the signal frequency and the frequency difference between the signal and the local oscillator frequency. However, the current through the equivalent resistance of the APD is almost independent of signal frequency. The mixing output is mainly attributed to the nonlinearity of the multiplication factor. We show also that there is an optimal local oscillator voltage at which the normalized gain is maximized for a given avalanche photodiode.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2003년도 하계학술대회 논문집 B
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• pp.1223-1225
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• 2003

By having the proposed circuit using a smaller one with a small reactor, the output voltage is boosted-up and improves the input of the current waveform. Therefore, we are able to follow the harmonics guidelines. Greater power and efficiency is obtained from the proposed circuit. This also reduces some switching loss and holds the overshooting by using the inverter of eliminated dead-time HPWM which is a non-linear impedance of the circuit to make up the diodes, the capacitance, and the reactor. We compared the conventional PWM inverter and proposed HPWM inverter.