• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.604-614
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• 2018

This paper proposes a synchronous switching technique for a Vienna rectifier that uses carrier-based pulse width modulation (CB-PWM). A three-phase Vienna rectifier, similar to a three-level T-type converter with three back-to-back switches, is used as a PWM rectifier. Conventional CB-PWM requires six independent gate signals to operate back-to-back switches. When internal switches are operated synchronously, only three independent gate signals are required, which simplifies the construction of gate driver circuits. However, with this method, total harmonic distortion of the input current is higher than that with conventional CB-PWM switching. A reactive current injection technique is proposed to improve current distortion. The performance of the proposed synchronous switching method and the effectiveness of the reactive current injection technique are verified using simulations and experiments performed with a set of Vienna rectifiers rated at 5 kW.

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 2002년도 전력전자학술대회 논문집
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• pp.498-501
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• 2002

In the conventional PWM converter, high-frequency switching techniques was used for high-density of energy, but occurred a lot of problems such as switching losses, switching voltage/current stresses, EMI(Electromgnetic Interference) and so on. To overcome these problems, various soft switching techniques have been presented. However these techniques are focused on reducing switching losses and voltage/current stresses . The simulation and experimental results are shown that the active clamp ZVS flyback converter with the proposed RPWM(Random Pulse Width Modulation) technique reduces the conducted noise.

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 1998년도 Proceedings ICPE 98 1998 International Conference on Power Electronics
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• pp.316-319
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• 1998

RPWM(Random Pulse Width Modulation) is a switching technique to spread the voltage and current harmonics on the wide frequency area. Using randomly changed switching frequency of the inverter, the power spectrum of the electromagnetic acoustic noise cab be spread to the wide-band area. The wide-band noise is much more comfortable and less annoying than the narrow-band one. So RPWM have been attracting an interest as an excellent method for the reduction of acoustic noise on the inverter drive system. In this paper a new RPPWM (Random Position PWM) is proposed and implemented. Each of three pulses is located randomly in each switching interval. Along with the randomization of PWM pulses, the space vector modulation is executed in the C167 microcontroller also. The experimental results show that the voltage and current harmonics were spread to wide band area and that the audible switching noise was reduced by proposed RPPWM method.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2012년도 제42회 동계 정기 학술대회 초록집
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• pp.384-384
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• 2012

PRAM switching device by using current pulse modulation was investigated to verify its possibility for 3D architecture. In this work, two phase change materials connected in series having a different crystallization temperature are used. Its structural for different phase change material was evaluated by electrical resistance. We confirmed that Germanium-Antimony-Tellurium (GST) alloy and Germanium- Copper-Tellurium (GCT) alloy material were selected according to crystallization temperature, ${\sim}180^{\circ}C$ for switching and ${\sim}240^{\circ}C$ for memory devices, respectively. From this research, it is expected that phase change switching device could have advantages of process in terms of material similarity and structural simplification.

• 대한전기학회논문지:전기기기및에너지변환시스템부문B
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• 제50권10호
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• pp.513-519
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• 2001

This paper proposed a random sigma-delta modulator(RSDM), which is constructed by a 1st order sigma-delta modulator(SDM) and a simple structured random binary generator(RBG). The 1st order SDM produces a switching pulse waveform which has the same low-frequency component as the reference input, while the RBG spreads the distribution of the number of sampling per switching cycle, and thus disperses the spectrum spikes in the output. The relationship between the harmonic spectra and the number of sampling per switching cycle is studied through computer simulations, and the frequency spectra of the RSDM are confirmed in an experimental setup.

• 전자공학회논문지B
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• 제33B권10호
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• pp.148-156
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• 1996

Increasing the switching frquency is essential to achieve the high density of switched mode power supplies, but this leads to the increase of switching losses. A number of new soft switching converters have been presented ot reduce switching losses, but most of them may have some demerits, such as the increase of voltage/current stresses and high conduction losses. To overcome these problems, the ZVT-PWM converter has recently been presented. in this paper, the operation characteristics of the ZVT-PWM boost converter is analyzed, and the steady-states (DC) and small-signal model of this converter are derived and analyzed, and then the transfer functions of this converter are derived. The transfer functions of ZVT-PWM boost converter are similar to those of the conventional PWM boost converter, but the transfer characteristics are affecsted by te duty ratio and the switching frequency.

• 전기학회논문지P
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• 제66권2호
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• pp.58-62
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• 2017

This paper presents a novel prototype of the resonant AC link snubber circuit for the three-phase sinwave soft-switching PWM inverter. In principle, its operating principle is described, and the performance evaluations of the specific instantaneous space voltage modulated three-phase sinewave soft switching PWM inverter incorporating a resonant AC link snubber is illustrated, and evaluated, introducing the specific space voltage vector modulation implementation. It is conferred that the validity of three-phase soft-switching inverter treated here in setup experiment.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제3권4호
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• pp.287-297
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• 1998

RPWM(Random Pulse Width Modulation)은 인버터의 스위칭 주파수를 랜덤하게 변화 시킴으로써 전압, 전류의 고조파 및 소음의 스펙트럼을 광대역에 분산시키는 PWM 기법이다. 스위칭 주파수 또는 펄스의 위치를 랜덤하게 변화시켜 고조파의 불연속적인 이산치 성분을 넓은 영역에 분산시켜 EMI, 진동 등에 좋은 효과를 낼 수 있을 뿐만 아니라, 전력소자의 스위칭에 의해 발생하는 가청 스위칭 소음을 저감할 수 있으므로 근래에 매우 각광 받고 있다. 본 연구에서는 펄스의 위치를 랜덤하게 함으로써 가청 스위칭 소음을 저감할 수 있는 새로운 RPPWM(Random Position Pulse Width Modulation) 방식의 제안 및 구현하였다. 제안된 방식은 각 3상 펄스들의 위치를 변조 구간 내의 임의의 위치에 랜덤하게 배치함으로써 RPWM을 구현하는 방식이다. 이를 위하여 16bit 공성능 마이크로 컨트롤러의 C167을 사용하여, 공각 벡터 변조에 의하여 각 변조 구간에서의 듀티비를 구한 후, 랜덤수 발생기를 이용하여 균일한 분포로 각 상의 펄스를 배치하였다. 그리고 제안된 RPPWM을 이용하여 실험한 결고, 전압, 전류 및 소음의 스텍트럼이 광대역화 되어 전력소자의 스위칭에 의해 발생하는 전동기의 가청 스위칭 소음이 현저히 저감 됨을 확인하였다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 1997년도 한국자동제어학술회의논문집; 한국전력공사 서울연수원; 17-18 Oct. 1997
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• pp.500-503
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• 1997

In this paper, we investigate the control methodology of inverter Airconditioner, using the three dimensional vector scheme. The method of three dimensional vector aims at the determination of optimal switching patterns for PWM to reduce switching loss and to improve the performance supplied voltage. The induction motors are widely used for home Airconditioners. These motors can be classified into two types: on or off control of Airconditioner and the speed control of motor. For speed control of motors, generally PWM methods are used. The PWM method based upon the modulation of triangular wave can not afford to supply line voltage to the motor sufficiently because of the capacity of processing speed of micro processors. Therefore airconditioner can not be operated efficiently. This problem can be solved with the method of three dimensional vector since it can increase the supplied voltage and maximum operating frequency of motor to 173V and 96Hz, respectively. As the result, this method shows 10 - 15% increase of voltage and 10% increase of operating frequency over the modulation of triangular wave. According to a theoretical study, the number of switching in the method of three dimensional vector is smaller than that of the modulation of triangular wave. The power consumption can be reduced and the supplied voltage can be increased. In other words, the efficiency of Airconditioner can be improved. We show that the method of three dimensional vector can supply higher voltage than the modulation of triangular method through the experiments and verify the degree of improvement of efficiency theoretically.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.531-540
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• 2014

A novel carrier-based PWM (CBPWM) strategy of a three-level NPC converter is proposed in this paper. The novel strategy can eliminate the low-frequency neutral point (NP) voltage oscillation under the entire modulation index and full power factor. The basic principle of the novel strategy is introduced. The internal modulation wave relationship between the novel CBPWM strategy and traditional SPWM strategy is also studied. All 64 modulation wave solutions of the CBPWM strategy are derived. Furthermore, the proposed CBPWM strategy is compared with traditional SPWM strategy regarding the output phase voltage THD characteristics, DC voltage utilization ratio, and device switching losses. Comparison results show that the proposed strategy does not cause NP voltage oscillation. As a result, no low-frequency harmonics occur on output line-to-line voltage and phase current. The novel strategy also has higher DC voltage utilization ratio (15.47% higher than that of SPWM strategy), whereas it causes larger device switching losses (4/3 times of SPWM strategy). The effectiveness of the proposed modulation strategy is verified by simulation and experiment results.