• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.1277-1287
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• 2016

This study proposes a novel isolated high step-up galvanic converter, which is suitable for renewable energy applications and integrates a boost converter, a coupled inductor, a charge pump capacitor cell, and an LC snubber. The proposed converter comprises an input inductor and thus features a continuous input current, which extends the life of the renewable energy chip. Furthermore, the proposed converter can achieve a high voltage gain without an extremely large duty cycle and turn ratio of the coupled inductor by using the charge pump capacitor cell. The leakage inductance energy can be recycled to the output capacitor of the boost converter via the LC snubber and then transferred to the output load. As a result, the voltage spike can be suppressed to a low voltage level. Finally, the basic operating principles and experimental results are provided to verify the effectiveness of the proposed converter.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.573-582
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• 2015

본 논문은 에너지 하베스팅용 이중 모드 부스트 컨버터 설계에 관한 것이다. 설계된 회로는 에너지 하베스팅에 의해 출력된 작은 전압으로부터 startup 회로를 통해 승압된 전압을 얻는다. 이 전압이 일정 전압 이상이 되면, 전압 감지기에 의해 startup 회로에 공급되는 전압이 차단이 된다. 승압된 전압은 부스트 컨트롤러에 의해 최종적으로 $V_{OUT}$이 된다. 회로는 크게 전하 펌프를 위한 오실레이터, 전하 펌프, 펄스 생성기, 전압 감지기, 부스트 컨트롤러로 구성되어있다. 매그나칩 / SK하이닉스의 $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS 공정을 사용하였다. 설계된 회로는 테스트 결과 최소 입력 전압은 600mV이며, 출력은 3V이고, startup time은 20ms이다. 제작된 부스트 컨버터의 효율은 load current가 3mA일때, 47%로 측정되었다.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보디스플레이학회 2004년도 Asia Display / IMID 04
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• pp.1011-1014
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• 2004

In this paper, we present a new DC-DC converter for gate driver circuit in low temperature poly-Si TFT technology. It is composed of a newly developed charge pump circuit and a regulator circuit. When the input voltage is 5V, the efficiency of a positive charge pump used in the DC-DC converter and that of a negative charge pump is 69.0% and 57.1%, respectively. The output voltage of DC-DC converter varies 200mV when the target voltages of DC-DC converter are 9V, -6V and the threshold voltage of TFTs varies ${\pm}$ 0.5V.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.1155-1161
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 DC-DC 부스트 컨버터의 최소 입력전압을 250mV 까지 낮출 수 있도록 하는 저전압 스타트업 전압 발생기를 제안 하였다. 제안된 스타트업 전압 발생기는 250mV의 입력전압을 500mV 이상으로 승압시켜 커패시터에 충전한다. 이후, 커패시터에 저장된 전압으로 부스트 컨버터를 시동시킴으로써, 250mV의 낮은 입력 전압에서도 부스트 컨버터가 동작을 시작할 수 있도록 하였다. 부스트 컨버터가 정상 동작한 후에는, 부스트 컨버터에 의하여 만들어지는 승압된 출력전압을 다시 부스트 컨버터의 전원으로 사용하게 함으로써, 스타트업 동작 후에는 기존 부스트 컨버터와 동일한 높은 전력 변환 효율로 동작 하도록 하였다. 제안된 스타트업 전압 발생기는 낮은 입력전압에서 트랜지스터의 바디전압을 조절하여 트랜지스터의 문턱전압을 낮춤으로써, 입력전압을 승압시키는 딕슨 차지펌프에 높은 클럭 주파수와 큰 전류를 공급하도록 하였다. 제안된 스타트업 전압 발생기는 $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS 공정으로 제작되었으며, 250mV의 입력전압에서 생성된 클럭 주파수와 출력전압은 각각 34.5kHz와 522mV였다.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제15권6호
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• pp.1468-1479
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• 2015

Renewable energy resources such as wind and photovoltaic power generation systems demand a high step-up DC-DC converters to convert the low voltage to commercial grid voltage. However, the high step-up converter using a transformer has limitations of high voltage stresses of switches and diodes when the transformer winding ratio increases. Accordingly, conventional studies have been applied to series-connect multioutput converters such as forward-flyback and switched-capacitor flyback to reduce the transformer winding ratio. This paper proposes new single-ended converter topologies of an isolation type and a non-isolation type to improve power efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and output ripple. The first proposal is an isolation-type charge-pump switched-capacitor flyback converter that includes an extreme-ratio isolation switched-capacitor cell with a chargepump circuit. It reduces the transformer winding number and the output ripple, and further improves power efficiency without any cost increase. The next proposal is a non-isolation charge-pump switched-capacitor-flyback tapped-inductor boost converter, which adds a charge-pump-connected flyback circuit to the conventional switched-capacitor boost converter to improve the power efficiency and to reduce the efficiency degradation from the input variation. In this paper, the operation principle of the proposed scheme is presented with the experimental results of the 100 W DC-DC converter for verification.

• 대한전기학회논문지:시스템및제어부문D
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• 제50권10호
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• pp.479-485
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• 2001

In this paper, we introduce a charge pump phase-locked loop (PLL) architecture which employs a precharge phase frequency detector (PFD) and a sequential PFD to achieve a high frequency operation and a fast acquisition. Operation frequency is increased by using the precharge PFD when the phase difference is within $-{\pi}{\sim}{\pi}$ and acquisition time is shortened by using the sequential PFD and the increased charge pump current when the phase difference is larger than ${\pm}{\pi}$. So error detection range of the proposed PLL structure is not limited to $-{\pi}{\sim}{\pi}$ and a high frequency operation and a higher speed lock-up time can be achieved. The proposed PLL was designed using 1.5 ${\mu}m$ CMOS technology with 5V supply voltage to verify the lock in process. The proposed PLL shows successful acquisition for 200 MHz input frequency. On the other hand, the conventional PLL with the sequential PFD cannot operate at up to 160MHz. Moreover, the lock-up time is drastically reduced from 7.0 ${\mu}s\;to\;2.0\;{\mu}s$ only if the loop bandwidth to input frequency ratio is regulated by the divide-by-4 counter during the acquisition process. By virtue of this dual PFDs, the proposed PLL structure can improve the trade-off between acquisition behavior and locked behavior.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1999년도 하계학술대회 논문집 F
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• pp.2798-2800
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• 1999

A new circuit, modified valley fill (MVF) combined with resonant inductor of the self-excited resonant inverter and charge pump capacitors(CPCs), is presented to achieve high PF electronic ballast providing sufficient preheat current to lamp filaments for soft start maintaining low DC bus voltage. The MVF can adjust the valley voltage higher than half the peak line voltage. The CPCs draw the current from the input line to make up the current waveform during the valley interval. The measured PF and THD are 0.99 and 12%, respectively. The lamp current CF is also acceptable in the proposed circuit. The proposed circuit is suitable for implementing cost-effective electronic ballast.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2007년도 심포지엄 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.267-269
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• 2007

PLL(Phase Locked Loop) are widely used circuit technique in modern electronic systems. In this paper, We propose the low voltage and high speed PLL. We design the PFD(Phase Frequency Detector) by using TSPC (True Single Phase Clock) circuit to improve the performance and solve the dead-zone problem. We use CP(Charge Pump} and LP(Loop filter) for Negative feedback and current reusing in order to solve current mismatch and switch mismatch problem. The VCO(Voltage controlled Oscillator) with 5-stage differential ring oscillator is used to exact output frequency. The divider is implemented by using D-type flip flops asynchronous dividing. The frequency divider has a constant division ratio 32. The frequency range of VCO has from 200MHz to 1.1GHz and have 1.7GHz/v of voltage gain. The proposed PLL is designed by using 0.18um CMOS processor with 1.8V supply voltage. Oscillator's input frequency is 25MHz, VCO output frequency is 800MHz and lock time is 5us. It is evaluated by using cadence spectra RF tools.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.63-68
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 CCD 이미지 센서용 PMIC를 제안한다. CCD 이미지 센서는 온도에 민감하다. 일반적으로 낮은 효율을 갖는 PMIC에 의해 열이 발생된다. 발생된 열은 CCD 이미지 센서의 성능에 영향을 미치므로 높은 효율을 갖는 PMIC를 사용함으로써 최소화 시켜야 한다. 고효율의 PMIC개발을 위해 입력단은 동기식 step down DC-DC컨버터로 설계하였다. 제안한 PMIC의 입력범위는 5V~15V이고 PWM 제어방식을 사용하였다. PWM 제어회로는 삼각파 발생기, 밴드갭 기준 전압회로, 오차 증폭기, 비교기로 구성된다. 삼각파 발생기는 1.2MHz의 발진 주파수를 가지며, 비교기는 2단 연산 증폭기로 설계되었다. 오차 증폭기는 40dB의 DC gain과 $77^{\circ}$ 위상 여유를 갖도록 설계하였다. step down DC-DC 컨버터의 출력은 Charge pump의 입력으로 연결된다. Charge pump의 출력은 PMIC의 출력단인 LDO의 입력으로 연결된다. PWM 제어회로와 Charge pump 그리고 LDO로 구성된 PMIC는 15V, -7.5V, 5V, 3.3V의 출력전압을 갖는다. 제안한 PMIC는 0.35um 공정으로 설계하였다.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.1226-1235
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• 2016

For wearable health monitoring systems, a fundamental problem is the limited space for storing energy, which can be translated into a short operational life. In this paper, a highly efficient active voltage doubling rectifier with a wide input range for micro-piezoelectric energy harvesting systems is proposed. To obtain a higher output voltage, the Dickson charge pump topology is chosen in this design. By replacing the passive diodes with unbalanced-biased comparator-controlled active counterparts, the proposed rectifier minimizes the voltage losses along the conduction path and solves the reverse leakage problem caused by conventional comparator-controlled active diodes. To improve the rectifier input voltage sensitivity and decrease the minimum operational input voltage, two low power common-gate comparators are introduced in the proposed design. To keep the comparator from oscillating, a positive feedback loop formed by the capacitor C is added to it. Based on the SMIC 0.18-μm standard CMOS process, the proposed rectifier is simulated and implemented. The area of the whole chip is 0.91×0.97 mm², while the rectifier core occupies only 13% of this area. The measured results show that the proposed rectifier can operate properly with input amplitudes ranging from 0.2 to 1.0V and with frequencies ranging from 20 to 3000 Hz. The proposed rectifier can achieve a 92.5% power conversion efficiency (PCE) with input amplitudes equal to 0.6 V at 200 Hz. The voltage conversion efficiency (VCE) is around 93% for input amplitudes greater than 0.3 V and load resistances larger than 20kΩ.