• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.240-249
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• 2018

Individual DC voltage balance problem is an inherent issue for cascaded H-bridge (CHB) based converter. When the CHB-based static synchronous compensator (STATCOM) is operating at zero current mode, the software-based individual DC voltage balancing control techniques may not work because of the infinitesimal output current. However, the different power losses of each cell would lead to the individual DC voltages unbalance. The uneven power losses on the local supplied cell-controllers (including the control circuit and drive circuit) would especially cause the divergence of individual DC voltages, due to their characteristic as constant power loads. To solve this problem, this paper proposes an adaptive voltage balancing module which is designed in the cell-controller board with small size and low cost circuits. It is controlled to make the power loss of the cell a constant resistance load, thus the DC voltages are balanced in zero current mode. Field test in a 10kV STATCOM confirms the performance of the proposed method.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제35권7호
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• pp.881-890
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• 2011

Analyses of performance and behavior of the individual PEM fuel cells (PEMFC) under different operating conditions are of importance optimally to design and efficiently to operate the stack. The paper focuses on experimental analyses of a two-cell stack under different operating conditions, which performance and behavior are measured by the voltage of a cell as well as the stack. Experimental parameters include stoichiometric ratio, temperature of the air supplied under different working stack temperatures and loads. Results showed that the cell voltages are dominantly influenced by the temperature of the air supplied among others. In addition, an inherent difference between the first and the second cell voltage exists because of the tolerances of the cell components and the resulting different over-potentials at different equilibrium states. Furthermore, it is shown that the proton conductivity in the membranes conditioned by the humidity in the cathode channel highly affects the voltage differences of the two cells.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2005년도 추계종합학술대회
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• pp.647-650
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• 2005

In this paper, a low voltage SRAM using double boosting scheme is described. A low supply voltage deteriorates the static noise margin (SNM) and the cell read-out current. For read/write operation, a selected word line and cell VDD bias are boosted in a different level using double boosting scheme. This increases not only the static noise margin but also the cell readout current at a low supply voltage. A low voltage SRAM with 32K ${\times}$ 8bit implemented in a 0.18um CMOS technology shows an access time of 26.1ns at 0.8V supply voltage.

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 2011년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.26-27
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• 2011

This paper focuses on the zero-voltage/zero current transition voltage equalization circuit for the series connected battery cell. By adding auxiliary resonant cells at the main switching devices such as MOSFET or IGBT, zero current switching is achieved and turned off loss of switching elements is eliminated and by the voltage/second balancing of the inductor, zero voltage switching can be applied to switching element. Transformer coupling between battery cells and ZVZCT (Zero Voltage Zero Current Transition) switching method allow the fast balancing speed and high frequency operation, which reduces the size and weight of the circuit. The validity of the battery equalization is further verified using simulation involving four lithium-ion battery cell models.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2008년도 하계학술대회 논문집 Vol.9
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• pp.89-90
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 전압과 마찰전기에 의하여 전하를 가진 대전입자가 운동을 기반으로 이미지를 구현하는 대전입자형 디스플레이의 패널을 셀과 전극이 형성된 상판과 하판으로 제작하였으며, 각 패널은 격벽높이를 다르게 하여 대전입자층을 여러 층으로 addressing하여 spacer로 cell gap에 변화를 두어 합착하였다. 합착한 패널에 낮은 전압부터 인가하여 threshold voltage와 driving voltage, breakdown voltage를 확인하여 선명한 이미지 구현을 할 수 있었다.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제3권4호
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• pp.215-223
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• 2003

In this paper, a new zero-current-transition (ZCT) circuit cell is proposed. The main switch is turned-off under the zero current and zero voltage condition, and there is no additional current stress and voltage stress in the main switch and the main diode, respectively. The auxiliary switch is turned-off under the zero voltage condition, and the main diode is turned-on under the zero voltage condition. The resonant current required to obtain the ZCT condition is relatively small and regenerated to the input voltage source. The operational principles of a boost converter integrated with the proposed ZCT circuit cell are analyzed and verified by the simulation and experimental results.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.59-65
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• 2021

This study proposes a dead-time implementation method suitable for cell voltage control of a cascaded H-bridge (CHB) inverter. The PWM module of an existing microcontroller cannot generate a maximum voltage due to the dead-time effect when used as the cell controller of the CHB inverter. In the proposed method, the operation method of the PWM module was changed without using the dead time module included in the existing microcontroller, so that the cell output voltage can be increased to the maximum voltage without voltage discontinuity. During the maximum voltage generation period, the full turn-on state can be maintained without unnecessary switching. The validity of the proposed method is confirmed through an experiment.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보디스플레이학회 2009년도 9th International Meeting on Information Display
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• pp.17-19
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• 2009

The voltage and frequency dependence of voltage holding ratio (VHR) in a homogeneously-aligned liquid-crystal (LC) cell is studied in this paper. The discharge curves with different scan frequencies are obtained and the saturation phenomenon of VHR is observed under specific amplitudes of driving voltage. Our results suggest a reasonable concept to improve the VHR in LC displays without increasing the frame rate.

• 조명전기설비학회논문지
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.59-68
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• 2009

분산진원으로서 연료전지 발전장치는 100w부터 수백[kw]의 용량을 가지며 종전의 대규모 전력설비와 비교하여 높은 신뢰도를 갖는 고품질의 전력을 공급할 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 소형 분산전원으로서 PEMFC(polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell)연료전지 발전장치에 대한 PSIM(power electronics simulation tool) 모델을 설정하고 이를 바탕으로 DSP(digital signal processor)기반의 연료전지 하드웨어 시뮬레이터를 구현하였다. 연료전지 전류와 출력전압과의 관계는 연료전지의 전압-전류(V-I) 곡선 중 ohmic영역에서 1차 함수로 간략화 하였다. 구현된 시스템은 PEMFC 하드웨어 시뮬레이터, 절연형 풀 브리지 직류 부스트 컨버터 그리고 60[Hz] PWM인버터로 구성되어있다. 부하변동 및 과도상태에 대한 연료전지 하드웨어 시뮬레이터의 전압-전류-전력(V-I-P) 특성을 파악하였으며, 저항 부하 및 비선형 부하에 대한 전력변환기의 60[Hz] 정현파 교류출력 전압파형을 고찰하였다.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1999년도 하계학술대회 논문집 D
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• pp.1870-1872
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• 1999

Performance of 20-cell stack for direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) was tested at constant temperature. Electrode evaluation used to the stack was tested by the performance of a single cell. A new composite electrode prepared from active carbon cloth and high porous active carbon was developed for hydrophilic layer of the cell. Characteristics of a single cell using the composite electrode showed the current density of $500mA/cm^2$ at the cell voltage of 0.4V at $120^{\circ}C$. For the operating of 20 days. the cell voltage at constant cell current densty of $100mA/cm^2$ was slightly reduced from 0.62V to 0.53V with the cell voltage decay rate of 14.5%. Power of 20-cell stack at 5.3V, $100^{\circ}C$ was about 180W.