• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1996.07b
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• pp.1304-1306
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• 1996

A regenerative signal amplifying gate driver of self-excited electronic ballast is presented. It can be used for high pressure sodium (HPS) lamp without auxiliary external ignitor. Since the HPS lamp requires very high ignition voltage at start up, the resonant frequency of the circuit must be increased to obtain high voltage oscillations in spite of relatively small resonant current. The presented gate driver amplifies the current of gate drive transformer and raises the gate-source voltage Quickly to turn on the MOSFET switches. Hence, the resonant frequency can be increased more than 100kHz. The HPS lamp used in the simulation and experiment has the rating of 400W input power at 220V input ac voltage source. The experiments show that the resonant frequency is above 150kHz at start up.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2010.02a
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• pp.300-300
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• 2010

후면 패시베이션, back contact의 가변, 후면 접촉면적의 가변 등으로 Laser Fired Contact 태양전지의 효율을 증가 시킬 수 있다. 이 중 spacing의 가변으로 후면 접촉 면적을 가변 할 수 있으며, 이로 인하여 LFC 태양 전지의 효율을 높일 수 있을 것으로 전망된다. 본 연구에서는 후면 접촉 면적을 가변하였으며 이에 따른 효과를 확인하였다. series resistance가 작고, open circuit voltage 가 높은 최적의 조건을 찾는 것에 그 목적을 두었다. 실험 순서는 texturing 후, 후면에 SiNx를 10nm 증착하였으며, drive-in 방법으로 $POCl_3$을 도핑하였다. ARC후, spacing 조건 가변으로 접촉 면적을 가변시키면서 소자의 특성 변화를 비교하였다. 접촉 면적 및 spacing 조건은 5개의 set에 대하여 reference, 50%의 접촉 면적을 가지는 $150{\mu}m$ line, 10%의 접촉 면적을 가지는 $700{\mu}m$ line, 1%의 접촉 면적을 가지는 $700{\mu}m$ dot, 그리고 0.2%의 접촉 면적을 가지는 $1500{\mu}m$ dot으로 하였다. 각각의 경우에 대한 short circuit current density, fill factor, seris resistance, sheet resistance, open circuit voltage를 측정하였으며, 특히 series resistance는 각각의 경우에 대하여 $6.1m{\Omega}$, $5.1m{\Omega}$, $7.8m{\Omega}$, $10.1m{\Omega}$, 그리고 $15.7m{\Omega}$으로 측정되었다. wafer의 외각 테두리를 접촉 면적이 증가함에 따라서 sheet resistance가 증가하는 것을 확인 할 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.47 no.3
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• pp.28-34
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• 2010

In this paper, the transceiver for RFID reader using 13.56MHz as a carrier frequency and meeting International Standard ISO 14443 type A, 14443 type B and 15693 is presented. The receiver is composed of envelope detector, VGA(Variable Gain Amplifier), filter, comparator to recovery the received signal. The proposed automatic reference voltage generator, positive peak detector, negative peak detector, and data slicer circuit can adjust the decision level of reference voltage over the received signal amplitudes. The transmitter is designed to drive high voltage and current to meet the 15693 specification. By using inductor loading circuit which can swing more than power supply and drive large current even under low impedance condition, it can control modulation rate from 30 percent to 5 percent, 100 perccnt and drive the output currents from 5 mA to 240 mA depending on standards. The 13.56 MHZ RFID reader is implemented in $0.18\;{\mu}m$ CM08 technology at 3.3V single supply. The chip area excluding pads is $1.5mm\;{\times}\;1.5mm$.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.777-783
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• 2010

In order to drive gas discharge lamps, DC-AC converters with a LCC resonant tank, whose output voltage is adjusted by a variable frequency control are frequently used. However, when they are activated by varying the operating frequency, converters are frequently damaged by unstable operation, due to the rising and falling of the operating frequency near the resonant frequency. To solve this problem, a simple protection circuit for the power supply of a gas discharge lamp is proposed in this paper. This circuit senses the primary current of the main transformer. Using this protection circuit, the operating frequency of the lamp driving inverter system is kept close to and on the right side of the resonant frequency and the inverter is always operated in the ZVS condition. The resulting stable variable frequency operation allows various gas discharge lamps to be tested without the risk of damaging the main switches, because the protection circuit can protect the power MOSFETs of bridge converters from abnormal conditions. The validity and effectiveness of the proposed protection circuit are verified through the experimental results.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2004.07b
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• pp.815-818
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• 2004

The emerging applications such as reliable back-up power system and renewable energy call for high boost U-n converter. The conventional topologies to get high output voltage are using flyback circuit, cascade converters, and coupled inductor DC-DC converter. They have the stress and loss related to the leakage energy which results in low efficiency Tn this paper, novel high boost converter is presented. It has a structure of cascade boost converter but only one switch. Therefore, drive circuit is simple and extreme duty ratio is eliminated. To verify the proposed circuit, theoretical analysis and experimental results has been done using a prototype power supply.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.1-10
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• 2007

In recent few years, low-power electronics has been a leading drive for technology developments nourished by rapidly growing market share. Mobile DRAM, as a fundamental block of hand-held devices, is now becoming a product developed by limitless competition. To support application specific mobile features, various new power-reduction schemes have been proposed and adopted by standardization. Tightened power budget in battery-operated systems makes conventional schemes not acceptable and increases difficulty of the circuit design. The mobile DRAM has successfully moved down to 1.5V era, and now it is about to move to 1.2V. Further voltage scaling, however, presents critical problems which must be overcome. This paper reviews critical issues in mobile DRAM design and various circuit schemes to solve the problems. Focused on analog circuits, bitline sensing, IO line sensing, refresh-related schemes, DC bias generation, and schemes for higher data rate are covered.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.07a
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• pp.906-907
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• 2008

기존의 LED(Light Emitting Diode)를 이용한 LCD(Liquid Crystal Display) 백라이트 유닛은 무부하시 불필요한 전력소모가 발생하는 경우가 있어 보호회로가 필요하였다. 그래서 본 논문은 보호회로를 이용한 LCD 백라이트 유닛용의 LED 구동회로를 제안한다. 제안된 보호회로는 실험 결과 무부하시 피드백 제어부 IC(Integrated Circuit)의 전원전압 VCC를 UVLO(Under Voltage Lock Out)전압 이하로 강하시켜 무부하시 소비되는 전력을 줄일 수 있었다. 또, 무부하시 부스트 컨버터 출력부의 전압스트레스를 줄일 수 있었고, 유부하시 보호회로가 있는 컨버터와 보호회로가 없는 컨버터의 효율비교에서 거의 같은 효율이 측정되었다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2006.10a
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• pp.22-23
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• 2006

A new current-driving pixel circuit for active-matrix organic light-emitting diodes (AMOLEDs), composed of four organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs) and one capacitor, is proposed using a current scaling method. Designing pixel circuits with OTFTs has many problems due to the instability of the OTFT parameters with still unknown characteristics of the material. Despite the problems in using OTFTs to drive the pixel circuit, our work could be set as a goal for future OTFT development. The simulation results show enhanced linearity between input data and OLEO luminescence at low current levels as well as successfully compensating the variation of the OTFTs, such as the threshold voltage and mobility.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• summer
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• pp.1211-1213
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• 2004

CCFL(cold cathode fluorescent lamp) are used to backlight of LCD(liquid crystal display). CCFL dimming methods are used to pulse frequency modulation(PFM) or pulse width modulation(PWM). In this paper, design of CCFL driving and control circuit by half-bridge type series and parallel resonant inverter that variable frequency modulation method to control the output voltage current. Inverter switching frequency is higher than resonant frequency for stable operating, and it is possible dimming control. On the basis of equivalent circuit, the validity of this study is confirmed by the comparison of simulation and experimental result.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2009.07a
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• pp.967_968
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• 2009

For lighting application, high-power LED nowadays is driven at 350mA and a sensing resistor is used to provide feedback for LED-current regulation. This method adds an IR drop at the output branch, and limits power efficiency as LED current is large and keeps increasing. In this paper, a power efficient LED-current sensing circuit is proposed. The circuit does not use any sensing resistor but extracts LED-current information from the output capacitor of the driver. Controlling the brightness of LEDs requires a driver that provides a constant, regulated current. In one case, the converter may need to step down the input voltage, and, in another, it may need to boost up the output voltage. These situations often arise in applications with wide-ranging ""dirty"" input power sources, such as automotive systems. And, the driver topology must be able to generate a large enough output voltage to forward bias the LEDs. So, to provide this requirements, 13W prototype Buck-Boost Converter is used.