• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.391-393
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• 2008

A modified boost converter with magnetic coupling is presented to reduce the reverse recovery loss while maintaining low conduction loss of the rectifiers. By utilizing a coupled inductor and a set of diodes, the current passing the boost rectifier is transferred to an auxiliary loop before turn-off, allowing low di/dt for reduced recovery loss. Moreover, the boost inductor is brought inside the bridge rectifier to reduce conduction loss by decreasing the number of conducting diodes during switch turn-off. Experimental results of a 500W prototype are provided to verify the increase in efficiency and validity of the proposed converter.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.43 no.2
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• pp.244-250
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• 1994

This paper presents the design of a new turn-off gate drive circuit for GTO which can accomplish faster turn-off switching. The major disadvantage of the conventional turn-off gate drive technique is that it has a difficulty in realizing high negative diS1GQT/dt because of VS1RGM(maximum reverse gate voltage) and stray inductances of turn-off gate drive circuit[1~2]. The new trun-off gate drive technique can overcome this problem by adding another turn-off gate drive circuit to the conventional turn-off gate drive circuit. Simulation and experimental results of the new turn-off gate drive circuit in conjunction with chopper circuit verify a faster turn-off switching performance.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2004.04a
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• pp.169-172
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• 2004

펄스파워 응용기술에 있어서 핵심이 되는 것은 대전력 고반복율의 스위칭 특성을 갖는 스위치 및 구동기술이다. 지금까지 대전력 에너지를 전달하기 위해 사용되고 있는 스위치는 크게 사이라트론 등과 같은 진공 스위치와 자기 스위치, 그리고 반도체 스위치로 구분할 수 있는데 이중에서 기존 반도체 스위치들의 한계를 극복하고 낮은 제작비용으로 대전력 고반복용 펄스 전원 장치 등의 다양한 산업분야에 활용하고자 개발된 반도체 스위치가 바로 RSD (Reverse Switch-on Dynistor)이다. RSD는 애벌런치 전류에 의해 소자 전체를 동시에 턴온시키는 특성이 있으므로 고전압 적용을 위해서 직렬 스택을 구성하는 경우에도 턴온 지연이 거의 없어서 전압 분배기와 같은 추가적인 장치가 필요 없으며 높은 di/dt 특성과 우수한 펄스 통전능력을 가진다. 본 논문에서는 30${\mu}s$의 펄스폭으로 스위칭 할 수 있는 10kV 20kA급 펄스파워용 RSD 스택 시스템의 설계와 실험결과를 보여 주고 있다.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers P
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• v.60 no.1
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• pp.48-52
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• 2011

Over the years, traditionally, six-switch three-phase inverters have been widely utilized for variable speed alternating current motor drives. Recently, some efforts have been made on the application of four-switch three phase inverter for uninterruptible power supply and variable speed drives. This is due to some advantages of the four-switch three phase inverter over the conventional six-switch three-phase inverters such as reduced price due to reduction in number of switches, reduced switching losses, reduced number of interface circuits to supply logic signals for the switches, simpler control algorithms to generate logic signals, less chances of destroying the switches due to lesser interaction among switches, and less real-time computational burden. However such as slow di/dt and speed limitation, are the inherent characteristics and main drawbacks of the four-switch configuration. Those problems can be overcome in conjugation with Voltage-doublers which has additional advantage, such as unity power factor correction.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1997.07d
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• pp.1205-1209
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• 1997

When the short fault current is flowed into a fuse, the notch of element is melted, and burnbacked by arc plasma, which caused by the voltage of fuse at both ends. The cutoff ability of fuse is heavily influenced by the degree of burnback. In this paper, we investigated the amount of burnback to the applied voltage di/dt variation, As a result, we confirmed that the amount of burnback is proportional to the variation of the applied voltage.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2018.07a
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• pp.332-333
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• 2018

This paper presents an advanced abnormal over-current protection with $SuperFET^{(R)}$ 800V MOSFET in Flyback converter. In advanced abnormal over-current protection, digital pattern generator is proposed to detect a steep di/dt current condition when secondary rectifier diode or the transformer is shorted. If current sensing signal is larger than current limit during consecutive switching cycle, Gate signal will be stopped for 7 internal switching periods. If the abnormal over-current maintains pattern, the controller goes into protection mode. The Advanced over-current protection has been implemented in a 0.35um BCDMOS process (ON Semiconductor process).

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1994.07b
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• pp.1661-1664
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• 1994

In designing $SF_6$ puffer circuit breakers, analyzing are behavior during current zero region and thermal recovery characteristics after current interrupt ion is very important. In this paper, a mathematical are model based on the integral method has been based to analyze them. The pressure rise in the puffer chamber and the distributions of pressure, density, velocity and enthalpy inside nozzle are calculated and analyzed at current zero region. The influence of fault current magnitude and change of di/dt at current zero on the interruption capability of puffer circuit breakers is investigated. Finally, the calculated results are compared with the available results from experiment.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2013.07a
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• pp.196-197
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 전기자동차용 저전압 직류 변환장치에 적합한 인터리빙 전류원 공진형 컨버터를 제안한다. 제안한 전류원 공진형 컨버터를 인터리빙하여 출력전류 리플을 완전히 제거함으로써 부피 및 효율에 큰 영향을 미치는 출력필터를 이론적으로 제거할 수 있다. 또한 $f_s=1/2*f_r$ 로 동작시키면 스위치와 다이오드가 전 부하영역에서 ZCS 턴온 및 턴오프가 가능하며, 스위칭 주파수가 변동해도 전류의 di/dt가 낮아 스위칭손실이 작은 장점이 있다. 입/출력 전압변동이 큰 응용에서는 스위치와 다이오드를 추가하여 2단 방식 컨버터로도 응용이 가능하다. 2kW급 시작품을 제작하여 제안하는 컨버터의 타당성을 검증하였다.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers B
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• v.50 no.2
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• pp.79-85
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• 2001

In this paper, a novel Zero-Current-Transition (ZCT) technique, which provides Zero-Current-Switching (ZCS) turn-off of the main switch, the main diode and the auxiliary switch, is presented. The proposed auxiliary circuit consists of minimum elements only one auxiliary switch, resonant inductor and resonant capacitor. Also the reduced di/dt, which is obtained by resonant inductor, helps soft turn-on of the main switch. Besides, to eliminate the additional conduction loss and current stress on main switch, a topological variation was performed. The theoretical analysis and the operation principle of the new ZCT techniques are described in detail with a boost converter as an example. To verify the validity of the proposed ZCT techniques, the simulation and the experiment were performed under 1kW output power and 100kHz switching frequency.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2008.10a
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• pp.61-63
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• 2008

An inverter with large capacity has been demanded at a factory automation and diffusion of the energy saving work. As the capacity of inverter is larger, the stary inductance has much influence on both the di/dt of IGBT current, and voltage stress across IGBT. Also, the life of the snubber capacitor may be shortened due to overheating of the snubber capacitor. In this paper, a planar busbar which consists of two layers is applied to N700-series inverter in order to minimize stray inductance. The voltage stress across IGBT is changed by both the DC busbar structure and the capacity of snubber capacitor.