• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.16 no.11
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• pp.2487-2494
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• 2012

In this paper, a thermal energy harvesting circuit with MPPT control is designed. MPPT(Maximum Power Point Tracking) control function is implemented using the linear relationship between the open-circuit voltage of a thermoelectric generator(TEG) and its MPP voltage. The designed MPPT control circuit traces the maximum power point by periodically sampling the open circuit voltage of a TEG, makes the reference voltages using sampled voltage and delivers the maximum available power to load. Simulation results show that the maximum power efficiency of the designed circuit is 94%. The proposed thermal energy harvesting circuit is designed with $0.35{\mu}m$ CMOS process, and the chip area except PAD is $1168.7{\mu}m{\times}541.3{\mu}m$.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.66 no.12
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• pp.1682-1688
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• 2017

In modern society, the number of industrial customers using equipment sensitive particularly to voltage sags is rapidly increasing. As voltage sags can cause loss of information as well as false operation of the control device, it results in the vast economic damage in industrial processes. One way to mitigate voltage sags in the sensitive loads is the installation of distributed generation (DGs) on the periphery of these loads. In addition, renewable energy sources are currently in the spot light as the potential solution for the energy crisis and environmental issues. In particular, wind power generation which is connected to a grid is rising rapidly because it is energy efficient and also economically feasible compared to other renewable energy sources. On the basis of the above information, in this paper, with Wind Turbine Generators (WTGs) installed nearby the sensitive load, the analysis of the mitigating effect comparison by types of WTGs is performed using voltage sag assessment on the IEEE-30 bus test system. That is, the areas of vulnerability according to types of WTGs are expected to be different by how much reactive power is produced or consumed as WTG reactive power capability is related to the types of WTGs. Using the concept of 'Vulnerable area' with the failure rate for buses and lines, the annual number of voltage sags at the sensitive load with the installation of WTGs per type is studied. This research will be anticipated to be useful data when determining the interconnection of wind power generation in the power system with the consideration of voltage sags.

• Journal of the Speleological Society of Korea
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• no.77
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• pp.1-7
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• 2007

Nowaday, prohibition of smoking is getting more important issue. So we designed "non-smoking area control system". This system is organized with AVR(ATmega8535), smoke sensor, comparator(LM339) and etc. In non-smoking condition sensor's output voltage is about 5V, and in smoking condition sensor's output voltage is under 5V. So we used comparator(LM339) to devide two conditions. In both conditions AVR(ATmega8535) transmits datas to the computer of administrator. At this time method of communication is RS-232.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2004.11b
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• pp.158-161
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• 2004

This paper presents practical applications of reactive power and voltage planning to obtain voltage stability and operational voltage level for 2005 year summer peak Korea power system. It also describes the new electric facilities, operation criteria, voltage levels, MVAr flows, reactive power reserves in each control area. And reactive compensation devices are installed to maintain established voltage levels and stability margins. This simulation results show the improvement of voltage levels and the increase of reactive margins & interface flow margins. Finally, the paper reports the necessity of dynamic reactive reserves. It can be applied to analysis reactive compensation requirements and P-V & V-Q curves by PSS/E & VSAT.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.23-28
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• 2011

This paper describes design and implementation of a spread spectrum clock generator(SSCG). The proposed architecture generates the spread spectrum clock controlling a input voltage signal for VCDL(Voltage Controlled Delay Line). Spread charge pump is controlled by the SSC modulation logic block provides a control signal to VCDL through LPF in DLL. By using this architecture, chip area and power consumption can be reduced because it is not necessary additional circuit to control modulation rate. This circuit has been designed and fabricated using the UMC 0.25um CMOS technology. The chip occupies an area of 290${\times}$120um^2.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2002.06e
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• pp.207-210
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• 2002

This paper describes a design of multiple-mode single-output DC/DC converter which can be used in both up and down conversion. Proposed up/down converter does not produce a negative voltage which is generated in conventional buck-boost type converter. Three types of operation mode(up/down/bypass) are controlled by the input voltage sense and command signals of target output voltage. PFM(pulse frequency modulation) control is adopted and modified for fast tracking and for precise output voltage level with an aid of output voltage sense. Designed DC/DC converter has the performance of less than 5 % ripple and higher than 80 % efficiency. Chip area is 3.50 mm ${\times}$ 2.05 mm with standard 0.35 $\mu\textrm{m}$ CMOS technology.

• Transactions on Semiconductor Engineering
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.10-14
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• 2024

This paper presents a circuit design aimed at generating the required reference voltage and temperature sensor voltage in conjunction with an ADC, utilizing the current generated by temperature characteristics of BJT components for sensor data conversion. Additionally, two control methods are introduced to reduce the standard deviation of the circuit, resulting in over a ten-fold decrease in standard deviation. The proposed circuit occupies an area of 0.057mm² and was implemented using 55nm RF process.

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.42-48
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• 2003

In system planing and operation, voltage and reactive power control is very important. The voltage deviation and system losses can be reduced through control of reactive power sources. In general, there are several different reactive power sources, we used switched shunt capacitor to improve the voltage profile and to reduce system losses. Since there are many switched shunt capacitors in power system, so it if necessary to coordinate these switched shunt capacitors. In this study, Genetic Algorithm (GA) is used to find optimal coordination of switched shunt capacitors in a local area of power system. In case study, the effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated in KEPCO's power system. The simulation is performed by PSS/E and the results of simulation are compared with sensitivity method.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.59 no.6
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• pp.1011-1016
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• 2010

It is an important issue to electric power system operations that it can reliably supply large-capacity power to consumption area as due to increasing power demand growth. For this purpose, The FACTS equipment based on Power IT technology with the existing mechanical compensators has been applied to power system. Therefore we suggest on this paper that a plan for coordination control of multiple power compensation equipment in order to increase the utilization of each facility and secure operation margin capacity. As the result of simulation, it is possible to cope actively with a suddenly changed power system. This helps greatly for the voltage stability and supply reliability in a suddenly changed power system.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.64-68
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• 2007

An InGaP/GaAs HBT based differential Colpitts voltage control oscillator(VCO) is presented in this paper. In the VCO core, two switching transistors are introduced to steer the core bias current to save power. An LC tank with an inductor quality factor(Q) of 11.4 is used to generate oscillation frequency. It has a superior phase noise characteristics of -130.12 dBc/Hz and -105.3 at 1 MHz and 100 kHz frequency offsets respectively from the carrier frequency(1.566 GHz) when supplied with a control voltage of 0 volt. It dissipates output power of -5.3 dBm. Two pairs of on-chip base collector (BC) diodes are used in the tank circuit to increase the VCO tuning range(168 MHz). This VCO occupies the area of $1.070{\times}0.90mm^2$ including buffer and pads.