• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.1578-1588
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• 2015

In this paper, an improved KY converter is presented, which is constructed mainly by one charge pump capacitor and one central-tapped coupling inductor. Besides, a passive clamping snubber is added to this converter to improve the efficiency above half load. As compared to the KY converter, the voltage conversion ratio of the proposed converter is upgraded significantly. In this paper, the basic operating principles and mathematical deductions of the proposed converter are described, along with some experimental results provided to demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed converter.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.264-270
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• 2011

In this paper a novel passive snubber is proposed, which can suppress the voltage spike across the bridge leg of the isolated full-bridge boost topology. The snubber is composed of capacitors, inductors and diodes. Two capacitors connected in series are used to absorb the voltage spike and the energy of each capacitor can be transferred to the load during one switching cycle by the resonance of the inductors and capacitors. The operational principle of the passive snubber is analyzed in detail based on a three-phase power factor correction (PFC) converter, and the design considerations of both the converter and the snubber are given. Finally, a 3kW laboratory-made prototype is built. The experimental results verify the theoretical analysis and evaluations. They also prove the validity and feasibility of the proposed methods.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.481-487
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• 2014

This study proposes a two-phase non-inverting buck-boost converter that uses a coupled inductor. The multi-phase converter has many advantages over single-phase counterparts, such as reduced output current ripple and conduction loss in switching devices and passive elements. Although the output current ripple of the multi-phase converter is reduced significantly because of the interleaved effect, the inductor current ripple is not reduced in multi-phase converters. One of the solutions to this problem is to use a coupled inductor. A 4 kW prototype converter is built and tested to verify the performance of the proposed converter.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.19 no.7
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• pp.1296-1303
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• 1994

In this paper, a design of active inductors and their application in a frequency converter are proposed. In MMIC design, passive spiral inductor takes larger area than any other passive and active elements. A conventional spiral inductor generates undesired crosstalk, and its performance cannot have certainty and reproducibility. Meanwhile the active inductor eliminates these drawbacks, and operates for much wider bandwidth. Furthermore, its size is smaller and nearly independent of inductance. the performance of MMIC frequency converter with active inductors is directly compared with that of the frequency converters with spiral inductors. The size is 28.6% smaller with better performance in MMIC frequency converter.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.1036-1045
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• 2016

This paper presents a novel control strategy for passive output filter reduction using an active output filter. The proposed method achieves the dual-function of regulating the output voltage ripple and output voltage variation during load transients. The novel control strategy allows traditional simple voltage controllers to be used, without requiring the expensive current sensors and complex controllers used in conventional approaches. The proposed method is verified with results from a 125-W forward converter.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 1999.11a
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• pp.259-262
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• 1999

This paper presents the design of highly efficient one-chip CMOS DC/DC converter. The converter operates at the switching frequency of 1MHz for reducing the size of passive elements. And use the zero voltage switching(ZVS) for minimizing switching loss at high frequency. The simulation shows that the circuit can achieve a 95% efficiency while delivering a load of 1W at 2V output.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2011.10a
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• pp.1825-1831
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• 2011

One of the major trends in traction power electronics is increasing the switching frequencies. The advances in the frequency elevation have made it possible to reduce the total size and weight of the passive components such as capacitors, inductors and transformers in the DC/DC converter and hence to increase the power density. The traction dynamic performance is also improved. This document describes several aspects relating to the design of resonant DC/DC converter operating at high frequency(10KHz) and the converter topologies and the control method of MAGLEV, which result in soft switching, are discussed.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.197-204
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• 2014

In this paper an Improved Zero Voltage Zero Current Pulse Width Modulation Forward converter which employs a simple resonance snubber circuit is introduced. A simple snubber circuit consists of a capacitor, an inductor and two diodes. In proposed converter, switch Q1 operates at ZCS turn-on, and ZVS turn-off conditions and all-passive semiconductor devices operate at ZVZCS turn-on and turn-off state. The proposed converter is analyzed and various operating modes of the ZVZCS-PWM forward converter are discussed. Analysis and design considerations are presented and the prototype experimental results of a 100w (40 V/2.5A) proposed converter operating at 30 KHz switching frequency confirm the validity of theoretical analysis.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.199-204
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• 2007

This paper presents design of interleave configured dc-dc converter for high power distributed power system applications. The multi channel interleaving buck converter with small inductance has proved to be suitable for micro-grid, requiring medium output voltages, high output currents and fast transient response. Integrated magnetic components are used to reduce the size of the converter and improve efficiency. Unlike conventional methods, the distributed approach requires no centralized control, automatically accommodates varying numbers of converter cells, and is highly tolerant of subsystem failures. A general methodology for achieving distributed interleaving is proposed, along with a specific implementation approach. The design and simulation verification of switching frequency 10 kHz system is presented with interleaved clocking of the converter cells. The simulation (simulated by PSIM 6.1) results corroborate the analytical predictions and demonstrate the tremendous benefits of the distributed interleaving approach.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.25 no.6
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• pp.484-489
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• 2020

This study proposes a new soft-switching three-level flying capacitor converter with low filter inductance. The proposed converter can achieve zero voltage switching (ZVS) turn-on of all switches by using auxiliary components La and Ca. It can also reduce filter inductance because the applied voltage of the filter inductor is decreased by using the flying capacitor. Furthermore, filter inductance can be reduced because the operating frequency of the filter inductor is doubled by the phase shifting between switches S3 and S4. The operation principle, design of passive components for ZVS turn-on, interleaving effects, and comparison of different topologies are presented. The experimental waveforms of a 1 kW two-phase interleaved converter prototype are provided to verify the validity of the proposed converter.