• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.40 no.3
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• pp.223-227
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• 2016

Power supplies make the load compatible with its power source. DC power supplies are extensively used with most electrical and electronic appliances such as computers, television, and audio sets. The presence of non-linear loads results in a low power factor and higher harmonics in the power system. Several techniques for power-factor correction and harmonic reduction have been reported in the literature. This paper proposes a bridgeless boost converter that improves the power factor and reduces the harmonic content in input line currents as compared to full-bridge rectifiers. This bridgeless boost converter eliminates the need of a line-voltage bridge rectifier in conventional boost converter and thereby reduces conduction losses. The effectiveness of the proposed scheme is verified by computer simulations by using the PSIM software.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.162-168
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• 2005

In this paper, a digital current mode control is designed for the power converter applications. The designed digital current mode controller is derived analytically from the continuous time small signal model of the power converters. Due to the small signal model based derivations of the control law, the designed control method can be applicable to boost, buck, and buck-boost converters. It is also proven that the controlled power converter employing the designed digital current mode controller is always stable regardless of an operating conditions. In order to show the usefulness of a designed controller, experiments are carried out using a 16bit DSP micro-processor, TMS320LF2406A.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.373-377
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• 2016

This paper presents a low power boost converter using offset controlled Zero Current Sensor (ZCS) control for thermoelectric energy harvesting.[1] [5] Offset controlled ZCS uses adjustable pre-offset that is controled by 6bit code each connected gate of NMOS for switching. Offset controlled ZCS demonstrates an efficiency that is higher than using analog comparator ZCS and that is smaller area than using delay line ZCS. Experimentally, the offset controlled ZCS system consumes 10 times less power than analog comparator ZCS based system at similar performance.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.511-520
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• 2011

Nowadays, industry of smart grid is important for practical use of the renewable energy. In this situation, it is important to use the energy storage to make more stable and efficient renewable energy sources. The power conditioning systems consist in a boost converter which makes renewable energy source connected with the grid-connected inverter and the charger/discharger which takes the energy transfer between the boost converter and an energy storage. The effects on the controller design of each converter must be investigated to avoid the instability of the entire system. small-signal modelling of the boost converter and charger/discharger have been done and a controller design example is also presented. In this paper, effects on the controller design of the boost converter and the charger/discharger are investigated according to the existence of the parasitic resistance of the boost converter. In conclusion, the parasitic resistance of the inductor should be considered from the aspect of both the frequency domain analysis and time domain simulation using both MATLAB and PSIM.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.476-477
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• 2008

In this paper, high voltage DC- DC boost converters by stacked structure of power transistors are proposed. These stacked power transistors are tolerant to output voltage higher than the process limit for individual CMOS transistors. The proposed circuits were designed in a standard 3.6V, $0.13{\mu}m$.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.59 no.10
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• pp.1845-1849
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• 2010

We have proposed and fabricated a Buck-Boost DC to DC Converter for Thermoelectric generator (TEG) with constant output voltage suitable for battery chargers or constant voltage supplies in the range of several watt. The experimental and simulation results have shown that the proposed method allows stable operation with maximum 86% power transfer efficiency. The proposed circuit has a merit in cost and miniaturization of a system compared to conventional MPPT algorithms, because the proposed method adopts only analog circuit without DSP or micro controller unit for calculating peak power point by iterative methods.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2010.07a
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• pp.481-482
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• 2010

In this paper, the isolated boost converter is designed by considering the current/voltage characteristics of the converter. Also, the validity of the design for the converter is verified by both simulations and experiments on the 10[W] class isolated boost converter.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2007.10a
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• pp.391-392
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• 2007

In recent, portable information and communication terminals such as a notebook computer, an electronic pocketbook, a hand personal computer(PC) have been regards as the leading role in the coming next generation portable multimedia terminals which have hi-directional wireless data communication capability and can receive information and communication services such as electronic mail, database searching, and electronic shopping at anytime and anyplace. Therefore, in this paper, the circuit is simulated by 0.35um memory process used Current Limit for Boost DC-DC converter. Supply voltage $2.5V{\sim}3.3V$, output voltage 5V, Clock Frequency 1MHz, output current 200mA and line regulation decreased 12.46%.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1997.07f
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• pp.2002-2006
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• 1997

A new PF correction topology, Improved Valley Fill (IVF) with Valley Boost Converter (VBC) used in the electronic ballast for fluorescent lamp is presented. The IVF can adjust the valley voltage higher than half the peak line voltage. Hence, there is no pulsating line current around the line voltage peak, PF and THD are significantly improved. The VBC is added to the IVF to achieve unity PF and to increase the valley voltage. The measured PF and THD for a prototype electronic ballast are 0.997 and 5%, respectively, and the lamp current CF is as low as 1.5

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.239-245
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• 2016

In this study, a 12 V PWM boost converter was designed with the optimal values of the external components of the power stage was well as the compensation stage for smart electronic applications powered by a battery device. The 12 V boost PWM converter consisted of several passive elements, such as a resistor, inductor and capacitor with a diode, power MOS switch and control IC chip for the control PWM signal. The devices of the power stage and compensation stage were designed to maintain stable operation under a range of load conditions as well as achieving the highest power efficiency. The results of this study were first verified by a simulation in SPICE from calculations of the values of major external elements comprising the converter. The design was also implemented on the prototype PCBboard using commercial IC LM3481 from Texas Instruments, which has a nominal output voltage of 12 V. The output voltage, ripple voltage, and load regulation with the line regulation were measured using a digital oscilloscope, DMM tester, and DC power supply. By configuring the converter under the same conditions as in the circuit simulation, the experimental results matched the simulation results.