• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.366-377
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• 2015

In order to minimize switching losses for high power applications, a boost PFC rectifier with a novel passive lossless snubber circuit is proposed. The proposed lossless snubber is composed of coupled inductors merged into a boost inductor. This method compared with conventional methods does not need additional inductor cores and it reduces extra costs to implement a soft switching circuit. Especially, the proposed circuit can reduce the reverse recovery current of output diode rectifiers due to the coupling effect of the inductor. During turn-on and turn-off operating modes, the proposed PFC converter operates under soft switching conditions with high power conversion efficiency. In addition, the performance improvement and analysis of the operating effects of the coupled inductors were also presented and verified with a 3.3 kW prototype rectifier.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1995.07a
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• pp.416-419
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• 1995

An analysis of a new load resonant inverter considering stray inductance is given. There are several different types for load resonant inverters. They can offer zero turn-on as well as zero turn-off switching losses, yielding high efficiency at high power and high frequencies. However, they didn't consider the influences of stray inductance. In conventional topology using lossless snubber capacitor, stray inductances result in very high frequency resonant current. Especially, these influences can be problematic in high power system such as induction heating system with large current of some 10A associated with it. These currents increase EMI problem, give harmful effects in gate driver's operation and increase loss of dc-link capacitor as well as snubber capacitor. Therefore, the effect of stray inductances should be treated and reduced. This paper presents a new load resonant inverter topology, which can reduce the effect of stray inductances.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2003.07a
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• pp.77-80
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• 2003

Switching Mode Power Supply(SMPS) is widely used in many industrial fields. Power factor improvement and harmonic reduction technique are very important in SMPS. In this paper, we propose the circuit applied Flying Capacitor Snubber for improving power factor of boost converter on fast switching state. Snubber circuit consists of a inductor, two diodes and a capacitor. The losses of switching are reduced by inserting a snubber inductor in the series path of the boost switch and the rectifier diode to control the di/dt rate of the rectifier during it's turn-off. Prior to actual experiment, the circuit analysis Is implemented by PSPICE simulation.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers P
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• v.60 no.4
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• pp.246-252
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• 2011

In this paper proposes the soft-switching boost converter and MPPT control for improving the efficiency of PV system. The proposed converter designed H-bridge auxiliary resonant circuit. By this circuit, all of the switching devices perform the soft switching under the zero voltage and zero current condition. Therefore the periodic switching losses can be decreased at turn on, off. The soft switching boost converter designs for 1.5[kW] solar module of the power conversion. Thus, this soft switching boost converter is simulated by MATLAB simulation using Newton-Method algorithm. As a result, Proposed Soft Switching Converter compared to a typical boost converter switching loss was reduced about 61%. And the overall system efficiency was verified to increase about 3.3%.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 1998.07a
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• pp.269-274
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• 1998

This paper describes a scaled model for PWM thyristor current-source inverter with a commutation circuit. The system consists of a 6-pulse thyristor bridge and an LC resonant circuit with thyristor switches, which offers thyristors to have turn-off capability for PWM operation with minimal switching losses. The proposed system can be used as a reactive power compensator with PWM operation for the utilitity application. There would be two advantages in the proposed system over the existing voltage source inverter. One is the low system cost due to using the conventional thyristors. Another is easy expansion of system operation voltage because th series operation of thyristor devices is already proven in HVDC system.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.41 no.3
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• pp.237-243
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• 1992

The large value of the snubber capacitor is needed to protect the devices in high voltage converters using series connected power semiconductors. But that results in more losses and longer commutation time. So, new technique of series connection is required, which can minimize the value of snubber capacitor and also promote the reliability of high voltage converters. We study on the switching characteristics of series connected power semiconductors and then propose a novel switching algorithm for series-connection which is able to implement not only the dynamic voltage balancing in spite of the differerce of switching characteristics, but the minimization of the value of snubber capacitor, through the change of the value of snubber capacitor by Miller effect. Finally, we illustrate the validity of this synchronization by computer simulation and experimental results.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2005.04a
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• pp.168-171
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• 2005

The conception of the passive lossless snubber with the simpler is presented. Thus a necessity condition of the passive lossless soft switching converter with the simplest topology is directed. A novel passive regenerative snubber called soft snubber applied to a hard switching converter is proposed. The passive snubber consists of a snubber inductor, two snubber rectifiers, and a snubber capacitor. The losses are reduced by inserting a snubber inductor in the series path of the rectifier during it's turn off. It is so simple that can make energy reset or capacitor discharged directly without producing any current circulation. To show the superiority of this converter is verified through the experiment with a 640W, 100kHz prototype converter.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2012.07a
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• pp.31-32
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• 2012

능동클램프 타입의 전류원 컨버터는 입력전류 리플이 작으며 클램프로 서지제거는 물론 스위치의 ZVS 턴온을 가능하게 한다. 그 중 부스트 하프브리지 컨버터는 변압기 턴비와 다이오드 정격이 낮고 모든 소자가 대칭적 구조를 가지며 변압기의 마그네타이징 오프셋이 없으므로 연료전지와 같은 대전류 고승압 응용에 적합하다. 본 논문에서는 준공진 기법을 적용하여 스위치 턴오프 전류를 크게 감소시킨 능동클램프 타입의 부스트 하프브리지 컨버터를 제안한다. 16V, 1.2kW급 시작품으로 기존 방식과의 비교분석을 통하여 제안하는 방식의 타당성을 입증하였다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2007.07a
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• pp.1149-1150
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• 2007

In this paper, operation of isolated current-fed full-bridge converter with active clamp is investigated by simulation and experiments. Experimental waveforms show a good agreement with the corresponding simulation results. Further, losses such as conduction loss, turn-on/off loss of MOSFETs and diodes are measured and their characteristics in the converter is addressed. 200W prototype DC-DC converter is developed for verification of the derived operating modes, design rules and loss analysis.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2005.07b
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• pp.1428-1431
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• 2005

This paper presents an improved ZVT(Zero Voltage Transition) DC/DC Boost Converter using Active Snubber. The Conventional ZVT PWM Boost Converter is improved to minimize the switching loss of auxiliary switch using the minimum number of the components. In this thesis, advantage and disadvantages of Conventional ZVT Converter using a auxiliary resonant circuit is discussed. Then Improved ZVT soft switching converter will be discussed. In comparison a previous ZVT converter, the proposed converter reduces turn-off switching loss of the auxiliary switch. Therefore, the proposed converter has a high efficiency by active snubber. To show the superiority of this converter is verified through the experiment with a 640W, 100kHz prototype converter.