• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.46-48
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• 2008

A concern about micro grid connection system is elevated. The reason is that carbon dioxide emission is regionally restricted to prevent the drain of fossil fuel, high oil prices and global warming. The existing photovoltaic DC-DC converter is operated by the full-bridge method. However, the configuration is complicated because a phase shift method is required to raise an efficiency. A photovoltaic DC-DC converter connected with second layered half-bridge converter and boost converter is proposed in this paper. This proposed DC-DC converter is easy to control and has an advantage of reducing the size. Finally, the validity of the proposed converter is verified by the experimentation.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.343-355
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• 2018

A wide-voltage-conversion range bidirectional DC-DC converter is proposed in this paper. The topology is comprised of one typical LC energy storage component and a special common grounded asymmetric H-bridge with four active power switches/anti-parallel diodes. The narrow output PWM voltage is generated from the voltage difference between two normal (wider) output PWM voltages from the asymmetric H-bridge with duty cycles close to 0.5. The equivalent switching frequency of the output PWM voltage is double the actual switching frequency, and a wide step-down/step-up ratio range is achieved. A 300W prototype has been constructed to validate the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed bidirectional converter between the variable low voltage side (24V~48V) and the constant high voltage side (200V). The slave active power switches allow ZVS turn-on and turn-off without requiring any extra hardware. The maximum conversion efficiency is 94.7% in the step-down mode and 93.5% in the step-up mode. Therefore, the proposed bidirectional topology with a common ground is suitable for energy storage systems such as renewable power generation systems and electric vehicles with a hybrid energy source.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.06a
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• pp.356-361
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• 2005

In this paper, a new scheme of current programmed control for three phase PWM AC-AC converter is presented. Compared to duty-ratio voltage control, current programmed control has several advantages such as reduction of system order and inherent current protection. By considering only the magnitude components, the same scheme in the DC-DC converter can be extended to the three phase PWM AC-AC converter. Sensing the output voltage and the inductor current, an error signal will be generated by comparing the output voltage magnitude with a reference value. Then the error signal will be processed by a PI compensator to generate the current command. The converter switches will the change the state by a periodic clock pulse or at the instants when the inductor current magnitude reaches the current command. As an example case, the buck converter is treated. The converter analysis is carried out by applying the complex DQ circuit transformation to obtain basic physical insight into the converter operation and to establish some important characteristic equations for control purpose. The simulation with Simplorer shows the validity of the proposed scheme and the experimental results support the verification of the design.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.357-364
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• 2015

This research presents a DC-DC converter controller implemented with an analog memory. The structure of the converter will contribute to solve the stability problem unavoidable in a conventional closed loop converter. The analog memory will be used for realizing CAM(Contents Addressable Memory) which contains the output of the converter and the relevant duty ratio, respectively. The operation for reading in the memory is executed with an absolute differencing circuit and a WTA(Winner-Take-All) circuit suitable for a nearest-match function of the CAM. We also present a system architecture that enables highly-paralleled fast writing and quick readout as well as high integration density.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.179-185
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• 2008

In this paper, an advanced torque control scheme of SRM using DITC(Direct Instantaneous Torque Control) and PWM(pulse width modulation) is presented. Different from conventional DITC method, proposed method uses one or two switching modes at every sampling time, instead of only one switching mode. The duty ratio of the phase switch is regulated according to the torque error and simple control rules of DITC. Moreover the sampling time of control can be extended, which allows implementation on low cost micro-controllers. A simple calculation of PWM can assure a constant switching frequency with an excellent control performance. The proposed control method is verified by the simulations and experimental results.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers B
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• v.51 no.7
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• pp.387-398
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• 2002

In this paper, a new Three-Phase Lead-Lag Random Pulse Position PWM(LL-RPWM) scheme is proposed and implemented for decreasing audible acoustic noise of motor drives. In the proposed RPWM(Random PWM), each of three phase pulses is located randomly in each switching interval. Based on the space vector modulation technique, the duty ratio of the pulses is calculated. Along with the randomization of the PWM pulses, we can obtain the effects of spread spectra of voltage, current as in the case of randomly changed switching frequency. To verify the validity of the proposed LL-RPWM, the simulation and experimental study was tried. Along with the randomization PWM pulses, the space vector modulation is also executed in the C167 micro-controller. The simulation and experimental results show that the voltage and current harmonics are spread to a wide band area and that the audible acoustic noise is reduced by the proposed RPWM method.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.32 no.9
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• pp.720-727
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• 2008

Microfluidic single chip integrating thermopneumatic micropump and micro check valve are developed. The micropump and micorvalve are made of biocompatible materials, glass and PDMS, so as to be applicable to the biochip. By using the passive-type check valve, backward flow and fluid leakage are blocked and flow control is stable and precise. The chip is composed of three PDMS layers and a glass substrate. In the chip, flow channel and pump chamber were made on the PDMS layers by the replica molding technique and pump heater was made on the glass substrate by Cr/Au deposition. Diameter of the pump chamber is 7 mm and the width and depth of the channel are 200 and $180{\mu}m$, respectively. The PDMS layers chip and the heater deposited glass chip are combined by a jig and a clamp for pumping operation, and they are separable so that PDMS chip is used as a disposable but the heater chip is able to be used repeatedly. Pumping performance was simulated by CFD software and investigated experimentally. The performance was the best when the duty ratio of the applied voltage to the heater was 33%.

• 한국태양에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2012.03a
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• pp.153-159
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• 2012

In photovoltaic system, the characteristic of photovoltaic module such as open circuit voltage and short circuit current will be changed because of cell temperature and solar radiation. Therefore, a boost converter of the PV system connects between the output of photovoltaic system and DC link capacitor of grid connected inverter as controlling duty ratio for maximum power point tracking(MPPT). This paper shows the dynamic characteristic of the boost converter by comparing single-loop control algorithm and two-loop control algorithm using both analog and digital control. The proposed both compensation method has been verified with computer simulation and simulation results obtained demonstrate the validity of the proposed control schemes.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.48 no.10
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• pp.15-19
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• 2011

We have proposed a maximum power point tracking (MPPT) circuit for thermoelectric generator (TEG) using a Boost converter. The key point of the proposed MPPT circuit is that the duty ratio of the boost converter automatically moves to Maximum Power Point by comparing of consecutive sampling voltage using two comparators. From the simulation results, we showed that the proposed circuit can find the maximum power point within 2 CLK periods and to generate optimal PWM signal within 3 CLK periods. The proposed MPPT circuit was designed by using a CMOS 0.18 um process, and it is now on the fabrication.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2014.02a
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• pp.219.1-219.1
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• 2014

전자소자 산업의 미세화 및 대형화에 따라 플라즈마 밀도, 전위, 온도, 균일도 등 과 같은 플라즈마 특성을 제어하는 것은 차세대 플라즈마 장치 개발에 있어 매우 중요한 요소라고 할 수 있다. 특히, 급격한 소자의 미세화에 따라 플라즈마 공정을 통해 발생할 수 있는 damage는 큰 issue가 되어 왔고, 많은 연구자들은 이를 해결하기 위해서 다각적인 노력을 진행해 왔다. 그중 높은 전자 온도는 높은 전자 에너지에 의해 공정 중 소자를 손상 시키는 주된 원인이라고 보고되고 있으며, 이에 대한 제어기술은 매우 중요하다고 할 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 서로 다른 두 개의 내/외측으로 나뉘어진 나선형 모양의 ICP 안테나를 이용 하여 연구를 진행하였다. 내측의 안테나에는 2 MHz를 연결 하였으며, 외측의 안테나에는 13.56 MHz를 연결 하였으며, 내/외측 안테나에 각각 pulse mode로 입력전력을 인가해 줌으로써 플라즈마의 특성을 관찰하였다. Pulse / CW (Continuous Wave) mode에 있어서 전자온도의 측정을 위해 emissive probe 를 이용하여 plasma potential과 floating potential을 측정하였으며, 이를 통하여 전자온도를 계산하여 구할 수 있었다. Duty ratio 및 pulsing frequency의 변화에 따른 전자온도의 변화를 확인 할 수 있었으며, 그에 따른 플라즈마 균일도를 ion saturation current를 측정함으로써 관찰할 수 있었다. 실제 식각 공정에 있어서 Pulsing 조건에 따른 식각 특성을 관찰하기 위해, SiO2, ACL (Amorphous Carbon Layer)에 대해 식각을 진행하였으며, 식각 메커니즘 분석을 위해 이온에너지 분포의 변화를 PSM (Plasma Sampling Mass-spectroscopy)을 이용하여 측정하였다.