• Electrical & Electronic Materials
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• v.10 no.9
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• pp.930-937
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• 1997

Polycrystalline CdTe thin films have been studied for photovoltaic application because of their high absorption coefficient and optimal band energy(1.45 eV) for solar energy conversion. In this study CdTe thin films were deposited on CdS(chemical bath deposition)/ITO(indium tin oxide) substrate by rf-magnetron sputtering under various conditions. Structural optical and electrical properties are investigated with XRD UV-Visible spectrophotometer SEM and solar simulator respectively. The fabricated CdTe/CdS solar cell exhibited open circuit voltage( $V_{oc}$ ) of 610 mV short circuit current density( $J_{sc}$ ) of 17.2 mA/c $m^2$and conversion efficiency of about 5% at optimal sputtering conditions.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2010.02a
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• pp.300-300
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• 2010

후면 패시베이션, back contact의 가변, 후면 접촉면적의 가변 등으로 Laser Fired Contact 태양전지의 효율을 증가 시킬 수 있다. 이 중 spacing의 가변으로 후면 접촉 면적을 가변 할 수 있으며, 이로 인하여 LFC 태양 전지의 효율을 높일 수 있을 것으로 전망된다. 본 연구에서는 후면 접촉 면적을 가변하였으며 이에 따른 효과를 확인하였다. series resistance가 작고, open circuit voltage 가 높은 최적의 조건을 찾는 것에 그 목적을 두었다. 실험 순서는 texturing 후, 후면에 SiNx를 10nm 증착하였으며, drive-in 방법으로 $POCl_3$을 도핑하였다. ARC후, spacing 조건 가변으로 접촉 면적을 가변시키면서 소자의 특성 변화를 비교하였다. 접촉 면적 및 spacing 조건은 5개의 set에 대하여 reference, 50%의 접촉 면적을 가지는 $150{\mu}m$ line, 10%의 접촉 면적을 가지는 $700{\mu}m$ line, 1%의 접촉 면적을 가지는 $700{\mu}m$ dot, 그리고 0.2%의 접촉 면적을 가지는 $1500{\mu}m$ dot으로 하였다. 각각의 경우에 대한 short circuit current density, fill factor, seris resistance, sheet resistance, open circuit voltage를 측정하였으며, 특히 series resistance는 각각의 경우에 대하여 $6.1m{\Omega}$, $5.1m{\Omega}$, $7.8m{\Omega}$, $10.1m{\Omega}$, 그리고 $15.7m{\Omega}$으로 측정되었다. wafer의 외각 테두리를 접촉 면적이 증가함에 따라서 sheet resistance가 증가하는 것을 확인 할 수 있었다.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.158-161
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• 2006

Superstrate pin amorphous silicon thin-film (a-Si:H) solar cells are prepared on $SnO_2:F$ and ZnO:Al transparent conducting oxides (TCO) In order to see the effect of TCO/P-layers on a-Si:H solar cell operation. The solar cells prepared on textured ZnO:Al have higher open circuit voltage $V_{oc}$ than cells prepared on $SnO_2:F$. Presence of thin microcrystalline p-type silicon layer $({\mu}c-Si:H)$ between ZnO:Al and p a-SiC:H plays a major role by causing improvement in fill factor as well as $V_{oc}$, of a-Si:H solar cells prepared on ZnO:Al TCO. Without any treatment of pi interface, we could obtain high $V_{oc}$, of 994mv while keeping fill factor (72.7%) and short circuit current density $J_{sc}$ at the same level as for the cells on $SnO_2:F$ TCO. This high $V_{oc}$ value can be attributed to modification in the current transport in this region due to creation of a potential barrier.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.15 no.11
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• pp.2457-2464
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• 2011

In this paper, a vibration energy harvesting circuit using a piezoelectric device is designed. MPPT(Maximum Power Point Tracking) control function is implemented using the electric power-voltage characteristic of a piezoelectric device to deliver the maximum power to load. The designed MPPT control circuit traces the maximum power point by periodically sampling the open circuit voltage of a full-wave rectifier circuit connected to the piezoelectric device output and delivers the maximum available power to load. The proposed vibration energy harvesting circuit is designed with $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS process. Simulation results show that the maximum power efficiency of the designed circuit is 91%, and the chip area except pads is $700{\mu}m{\times}730{\mu}m$.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.7 no.6
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• pp.932-939
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• 2012

This paper presents an equivalent circuit model of a LIPB (Li-Ion Polymer battery) for Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEVs). The proposed equivalent circuit can be used to predict the charging/discharging characteristics in time domain as well as the impedance characteristic analysis in frequency domain. Based on these features, a one-cell model is established as a function of Depth of Discharge (DoD), and a 48-cell model for a battery pack was also established. It was confirmed by experiment that the proposed model predict the discharging and impedance (AC) characteristics quite accurately at different constant current levels. To check the usefulness of the proposed circuit, the model was used to simulate a motor driving circuit with an Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT) inverter and Brushless DC (BLDC) motor, and it is confirmed that the model can calculate the battery voltage fluctuation in time domain at different DoDs.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2012.07a
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• pp.621-622
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• 2012

The thermal over-current relay or electronic motor protection relay is mostly used as the open-phase detection device of the three-phase motor or load. When the over-current or overheat of electric line is generated, it detects and operates circuit breaker, but there is the defect that the sensing speed is slow, the operation can be sometimes failed, and the precision is decreased. In order to improve these problems, this paper is proposed a new control circuit topology for open-phase protection using semiconductor devices. Therefore, the proposed open-phase protection device enhances the sensing speed and precision, and has the advantage of simple fitting in the three-phase motor control panel in the field, as it manufactures into small size and light weight.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers B
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• v.49 no.3
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• pp.180-187
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• 2000

A moving-coil-type linear oscillatory actuator(LOA) consists of the NdFeB permanent magnets with high specific energy as the stator, a coil-wrapped nonmagnetic hollow rectangular structure. The LOA system was represented by the voltage equation of coil and the mechanical equation of motion. This set of equations was manipulated in state-space form. The EMF constant kE of equation parameters in state-space form can be obtained by using the induced voltage in armature coils at open circuit test. kE and other parameters provide the system matrices and transfer function for frequency response and dynamic simulation. Voltage source inverter-fed LOA is examined aiming to compare with results of simulation.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1993.07b
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• pp.1242-1244
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• 1993

As increasing of internal resistance value at MCFC electrode, out voltage of battery is decreased currently. We measured overpotential and IR drop which consist of resistance factors in MCFC electrode, and calculated out voltage from open circuit voltage.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2012.10a
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• pp.255-258
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• 2012

In this paper, with a thermoelectric device using the seebeck effect which generates electromotive force by temperature difference generates electric energy an energy harvesting circuit using MPPT(Maximun Power Point Traking) control is designed. After periodically sampling the open voltage of the thermoelectric device, the 1/2 voltage of open voltage which in a maximum power point is maintained through MPPT control circuit and harvested energy from thermoelectric device is delivered to load through a switch. The proposed thermal energy harvesting circuit is designed with $0.35{\mu}m$ CMOS process and the chip area excluding pads is $1168.7{\mu}m{\times}541.3{\mu}m$.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.59 no.5
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• pp.860-865
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• 2010

When a circuit breaker is opened, a large capacitance around the buses, the circuit breaker and the potential transformer (PT) might cause PT ferroresonance. During PT ferroresonance, the iron core repeats saturation and unsaturation even though the supplied voltage is a rated voltage. This paper describes an analytical analysis of PT ferroresonance in the transient-state. To analyze ferroresonance analytically, the iron core is modelled by a simplified two-segment core model in this paper. Thus, a nonlinear ordinary differential equation (ODE) for the flux linkage is changed into a linear ODE with constant coefficients, which enables an analytical analysis. In this simplified model, each state, which is either saturated or unsaturated state, corresponds to one of the three modes, i.e. overdamping, critical damping and underdamping. The flux linkage and the voltage in each state are obtained analytically by solving the linear ODE with constant coefficients. The proposed transient analysis is effective in the more understanding of ferroresonance and thus can be used to design a ferroresonance prevention or suppression circuit of a PT.