• Progress in Superconductivity and Cryogenics
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.23-27
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• 2012

This paper aims to evaluate the feasibility of using no-insulation High Temperature Superconducting (HTS) coil in persistent current mode system. A HTS coil in persistent current mode system usually includes one or more non-superconducting joints in its circuit. And the current decaying rate of the coil is affected by the resistance of joint in persistent current circuit. If the resistance of joint is large, decaying rate of the current drastically increases. Therefore, reducing the joint resistance of the HTS coil is very important in persistent current mode system. In this paper, the no-insulation HTS coil is suggested as a way to reduce the joint resistance with the embedded parallel contact resistance naturally made by no-insulation winding method. Two small coils are fabricated with insulation and no-insulation winding method, and persistent current mode system experiment of each coil is preformed and analyzed.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers B
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• v.48 no.1
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• pp.27-33
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• 1999

Compact fluorescent lamps are very sensitive to the variation of ambient temperature. This paper investigates the temperature characteristics of a 15[W] compact fluorescent lamp, and compensates the variation of light output by frequency control of its electronic ballast. Circuit parameters for the inverter of the electronic ballast are obtained by analyzing the R-L-C equivalent circuit for the inverter and the lamp. The optimum ratio of the two capacitance($C_1$/$C_2$), which are connected with the lamp in series and in parallel, respectively, is determined which consideration of the temperature variation within a range of 10~35[$^{\circ}C$]. As a result a value of 10 for the ratio is obtained at an operating frequency of 57[kHz], and with this value the frequency control works well for temperature compensation. Its validity is verified by investigating light output stabilization characteristics resulting from frequency control of the lamp at various temperatures.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.232-238
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• 2008

In this paper, a wideband power efficient 2.2 GHz - 4.9 GHz Medium Power Amplifier (MPA), has been designed and fabricated using $0.8{\mu}m$ SiGe BiCMOS process technology. Passive elements such as parallel-branch spiral inductor, metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitor and three types of resistors are all integrated in this process. This MPA is a two stage amplifier with all matching components and bias circuits integrated on-chip. A P1dB of 17.7 dBm has been measured with a power gain of 8.7 dB at 3.4 GHz with a total current consumption of 30 mA from a 3 V supply voltage at $25^{\circ}C$. The measured 3 dB bandwidth is 2.7 GHz and the maximum Power Added Efficiency (PAE) is 41 %, which are very good results for a fully integrated Medium PA. The fabricated circuit occupies a die area of $1.7mm{\times}0.8mm$.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.28 no.2A
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• pp.102-109
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• 2003

In this paper, the new multiplicative algorithm using standard basis over GF(2m) is proposed. The multiplicative process is simplified by data select method in proposed algorithm. After multiplicative operation, the terms of degree greater than m can be expressed as a polynomial of standard basis with degree less than m by irreducible polynomial. For circuit implementation of proposed algorithm, we design the circuit using multiplexer and show the example over GF(24). The proposed architectures are regular and simple extension for m. Also, the comparison result show that the proposed architecture is more simple than privious multipliers. Therefore, it well suited for VLSI realization and application other operation circuits.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers A
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• v.52 no.2
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• pp.121-133
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• 2003

This paper presents a fault location algorithm for a single phase-to-ground fault on 3-terminal transmission systems. The method uses only the local end voltage and current signals. Other currents used for the algorithm are estimated by current distribution factors and the local end current. Negative sequence current is used to remove the effect of load current. Five distance equations based on Kirchhoff's voltage law are established for the location algorithm which can be applied to a parallel transmission line having a teed circuit. Separating the real and imaginary parts of each distance equation, final nonlinear equations that are functions of the fault location can be obtained. The Newton-Raphson method is then applied to calculate the estimated fault location. Among the solutions, a correct fault distance is selected by the conditions of the existence of solution. With the results of extensive S/W and H/W simulation tests, it was verified that the proposed algorithm can estimate an accurate fault distance in a 154kV model system.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.42 no.12
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• pp.159-164
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• 2005

Recently, it has demanded high-speed digital circuits as information increase. Therefore, electromagnetic characteristics of compact microwave circuit occurred importantly. And, the effect of the imperfect ground plane on the signal integrity and influence of coupling between two parallel lines for high-speed digital transmission line on the printed circuit board is investigated by FDTD simulations in 3-D electromagnetic analysis method. The results of FDTD simulation are compared with the ADS simulation in commercial software, analyzed lumped element of modeling and electromagnetic wave's radiation of slot as frequency. As a consequence, when the slot in the ground plane is under microstrip line, it has much effect on propagation of wave.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.48-55
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• 1980

For the purpose of composing an anti-ghost antenna system, 2 antennas, which have the identical radiation pattern, are fixed parallel to each other with a constant separation. In view of the fact that the phase differnce between the added power and the subtracted power of the two undesired signal which is recieved from all direction except from the real front one becomes radian, now It is Possible to make the amplitude of each Power become equal and the phase of the subtracted power become out of phase with that of the added power, by adjusting the amplitude of the subtracted power and shifting its phase by + or radian. Therefore the sum of the added power and the above modified subtracted power will be able to become zero. According to the above study, a hybrid circuit is designed and through operation of this circuit , the undesired wave can be seen to be reduced by 20 dB.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.1187-1194
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• 2017

In this paper, a high step-up DC-DC PWM converter with continuous input current and low voltage stress is presented for renewable energy application. The proposed converter is composed of a boost converter integrated with an auxiliary step-up circuit. The auxiliary circuit uses an additional coupled inductor and a balancing capacitor with voltage doubler and switching capacitor technique to achieve high step-up voltage gain with an appropriate switch duty cycle. The switched capacitors are charged in parallel and discharged in series by the coupled inductor, stacking on the output capacitor. In the proposed converter, the voltage stress on the main switch is clamped, so a low voltage switch with low ON resistance can be used to reduce the conduction loss which results in the efficiency improvement. A detailed discussion on the operating principle and steady-state analyses are presented in the paper. To justify the theoretical analysis, experimental results of a 200W 40/400V prototype is presented. In addition, the conducted electromagnetic emissions are measured which shows a good EMC performance.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.199-204
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• 2007

In this paper, EEFL, which is advantageous for driving multi-lamp and is able to reduce number of inverter, is used and Piezoelectric Transformer, which is able to reduce self loss, miniaturize and has high boosting transfer rate, and parallel connected to drive multi-lamp. For optimized EEFL driver circuit configuration, a Push-Pull type Piezoelectric inverter was designed and a simulation analysis was performed on the inverter circuit, and by applying multiple different type of driving methode, it is proved that a piezoelectric transformer can be used to manufacture a big screen multi-lamp driving inverter.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.579-589
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• 2017

In this study a new high step-up dc-dc converter is presented. The operation of the proposed converter is based on the capacitor switching and coupled inductor with a single active power switch in its structure. A passive voltage clamp circuit with two capacitors and two diodes is used in the proposed converter for elevating the converter's voltage gain with the recovered energy of the leakage inductor, and for lowering the voltage stress on the power switch. A switch with a low $R_{DS}$ (on) can be adopted to reduce conduction losses. In the generalized mode of the proposed converter, to reach a desired voltage gain, capacitor stages with parallel charge and series discharge techniques are extended from both sides of secondary side of the coupled inductor. The proposed converter has the ability to alleviate the reverse recovery problem of diodes with circuit parameters. The operating principle and steady-states analyses are discussed in detail. A 40W prototype of the proposed converter is implemented in the laboratory to verify its operation.