• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.682-687
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• 2014

We have performed reverse gate bias stress tests on AlGaN/GaN-on-Si Heterostructure FETs (HFETs). The shift of threshold voltage ($V_{th}$) and the reduction of on-current were observed from the stressed devices. These changes of the device parameters were not permanent. We investigated the temporary behavior of the stressed devices by analyzing the temperature dependence of the instabilities and TCAD simulation. As the baseline temperature of the electrical stress tests increased, the changes of the $V_{th}$ and the on-current were decreased. The on-current reduction was caused by the positive shift of the $V_{th}$ and the increased resistance of the gate-to-source and the gate-to-drain access region. Our experimental results suggest that electron-trapping effect into the shallow traps in devices is the main cause of observed instabilities.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제61권11호
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• pp.1625-1633
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• 2012

In the lighting industry, a Lighting Emitting Diode (LED) is increasingly used because of many advantages and a eco-friendly product comparing with the conventional lighting. However, the LED lighting has to include various AC/DC converters because the direct current is used for the LED lighting. Among a lot of power converters, the flyback converter is widely used for the LED lighting and includes some electrolytic capacitors for the voltage regulation. But the electrolytic capacitor has shorter lifetime than the LED element. It makes the expected life-time of the converter having the electrolytic capacitor shorter than the LED element. This paper proposes the single-stage PFC flyback converter without electrolytic capacitors. To verify the performance of the proposed converter, simulated and experimental works were carried out.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.37-44
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• 2011

In this paper, a four-phase 8/6-pole 4-kW SR motor drive model is presented. Based on experimental data, the model allows an accurate simulation of a drive in dynamic operation. Simulations are performed and a laboratory type set-up is built based on a TI TMS320F2812 platform to experimentally verify the theoretical results obtained for a SR motor. To reduce acoustic noise and to correct the power factor of this drive, a two-stage power converter is proposed that uses a current source rectifier (CSR) as the input stage for the asymmetrical converter of the studied SRM. Employing the space-vector modulation (SVM) method in matrix converters, the CSR switching allows the dc link's capacitors to be eliminated and the power factor of the SRM drive to be improved. As the electrical motive force (emf) is directly proportional to the rotor speed, the input voltage to the machine can be programmed to be a function of the speed with the modulation index of the CSR, leading to a reduction in the acoustic noise of the SRM drive. Simulation of the whole SRM drive system is performed using MATLAB-Simulink. The results fully comply with the required conditions such as power factor correction with an improvement in the THD.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.637-644
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• 2019

Wireless power transfer (WPT) technology with various transfer mechanisms such as inductive coupling, magnetic resonance and capacitive coupling is being widely researched. Until now, power transfer efficiency (PTE) and power transfer capability (PTC) have been the primary concerns for designing and developing WPT systems. Therefore, a lot of studies have been documented to improve PTE and PTC. However, power consumption in the standby mode, also defined as the no-load mode, has been rarely studied. Recently, since the number of WPT products has been gradually increasing, it is necessary to develop techniques for reducing the standby power consumption of WPT systems. This paper investigates the standby power consumption of commercial WPT products. Moreover, a standby power reduction technique for WPT systems via magnetic resonance coupling (MRC) with a parallel resonance type resonator is proposed. To achieve a further standby power reduction, the voltage control of an AC/DC travel adapter is also adopted. The operational principles and characteristics are described and verified with simulation and experimental results. The proposed method greatly reduces the standby power consumption of a WPT system via MRC from 2.03 W to 0.19 W.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제40권3호
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• pp.223-227
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• 2016

다이오드를 이용한 정류기는 산업현장에서 널리 응용되고 있다. 그러나 입력전류에 많은 저차고조파가 포함되어 공급전압을 왜곡시켜 전력의 품질을 저하시키므로 이를 완화시킬 수 있는 적절한 설비가 필요하다. 또한 고조파 전류는 전력계통의 전압 왜곡, 가열 및 소음 등을 유발하여 효율을 떨어뜨린다. 고조파를 감소시키고 역률을 상승시키기 위하여 입력전류가 연속적이 되도록 하는 부스트 컨버터가 등장하였다. 본 논문에서는 입력전류에 포함된 고조파 전류를 감소시키고, 역률을 증가시킬 수 있을 뿐 아니라 전체 정류기 효율을 상승시키는 부스트 컨버터를 제안하였다. 이는 기존의 부스트 컨버터에 비해 전류가 통과하는 반도체의 개수가 감소하여 효율의 상승을 기대할 수 있다. 또한, 소프트웨어 PSIM을 활용하여 제안된 변환기의 유효성을 입증하였다.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제6권5호
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• pp.416-422
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• 2001

BLDC (Brushless DC) 전동기는 선형적인 토크 대 전류, 속도 대 전압특성을 갖고 있으며 기계적 전기적인 잡음이 없고, 가감속 제어가 용이하며, 토크 대 관성의 비가 매우 높아 소형으로 높은 출력을 낼 수 있다는 장점을 가지고 있다. 그러나 전기자 전류의 전환 (Commutation)시 고정자 권선의 인덕턴스 성분과 역기전력으로 인해 발생되는 전류리플은 BLDC 전동기의 구동시 발생되는 토크리플의 중요한 원인이 되어, 고정밀 서보계통에 대한 응용에 큰 장애가 되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 퓨리에 시리즈계수를 사용한 새로운 전류제어 알고리즘을 개발하여 상전류 전환시 발생하는 전류리플을 최소화함으로서 토크리플을 현저히 감소 시켰으며, BLDC 전동기의 구동을 위해 널리 사용되고 있는 UNIPOLAR PWM 방식과 시뮬레이션 및 실험을 통해 비교함으로써, 새로운 알고리즘의 효용성을 입증하고자 한다.

• 전자공학회논문지C
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• 제34C권11호
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• pp.1-11
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• 1997

The transient current components of the dRAM are analyzed and the sensing current, data path operation current and DC leakage current are revealed to be the major curretn components. It is expected that the supply voltage of less than 1.5V with low VT MOS witll be used in multi-giga bit dRAM. A low voltage dual VT self-timed CMOS logic in which the subthreshold leakage current path is blocked by a large high-VT MOS is proposed. An active signal at each node of the nature speeds up the signal propagation and enables the synchronous DRAM to adopt a fast pipelining scheme. The sensing current can be reduced by adopting 8 bit prefetch scheme with 1.2V VDD. Although the total cycle time for the sequential 8 bit read is the same as that of the 3.3V conventional DRAM, the sensing current is loered to 0.7mA or less than 2.3% of the current of 3.3V conventional DRAM. 4 stage pipeline scheme is used to rduce the power consumption in the 4 giga bit DRAM data path of which length and RC delay amount to 3 cm and 23.3ns, respectively. A simple wave pipeline scheme is used in the data path where 4 sequential data pulses of 5 ns width are concurrently transferred. With the reduction of the supply voltage from 3.3V to 1.2V, the operation current is lowered from 22mA to 2.5mA while the operation speed is enhanced more than 4 times with 6 ns cycle time.

• Progress in Superconductivity
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.1-6
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• 2011

Measurement of magnetic signals generated from electric activity of myocardium provides useful information for the functional diagnosis of heart diseases. Key technical component of the magnetocardiography (MCG) technology is SQUID. To measure MCG signals with high signal-to-noise ratio, sensitive SQUID magnetic field sensors are needed. Present magnetic field sensors based on Nb SQUIDs have field sensitivity good enough to measure most of MCG signals. However, for accurate measurement of fine signal pattern or detection of local atrial fibrillation signals, we may need higher field sensitivity. In addition to field sensitivity, economic aspect of the SQUID system is also important. To simplify the SQUID readout electronics, the output voltage or flux-to-voltage transfer of SQUID should be large enough so that direct measurement of SQUID output can be done using room-temperature preamplifiers. Double relaxation oscillation SQUID (DROS), having about 10 times larger flux-to-voltage transfers than those of DC-SQUIDs, was shown to be a good choice to make the electronics compact. For effective cancellation of external noise inside a thin economic shielded room, first-order axial gradiometer with high balance, simple structure and long-baseline is needed. We developed a technology to make the axial gradiometer compact using direct bonding of superconductive wires between pickup coil and input coil. Conventional insert has mechanical support to hold the gradiometer array, and the dewar neck has equal diameter with the dewar bottom. Boiling of the liquid He can generate mechanical vibrations in the gradiometer array due to mechanical connection structure. Elimination of the mechanical support, and direct mounting of the gradiometer array into the dewar bottom can reduce the dewar neck diameter, resulting in the reduction of liquid He consumption.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제49권6호
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• pp.497-504
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• 2021

본 논문에서는 항공기가 편대 비행 중에 발생되는 수신잡음에 대한 개선 방안을 연구하였다. 항공기의 통신 장비는 내/외부통신의 기능을 담당하기에 비행 임무 수행과 안전에 있어서 매우 중요하기 때문에 잡음이 없고 깨끗한 통신 품질과 송/수신 기능이 구현이 요구된다. 따라서 수신잡음 현상에 대해서 FTA 분석 및 고장탐구를 수행하였고, 수신잡음에 영향을 주는 인터컴의 내부 잡음 및 송신 끊김 현상이 식별되었다. 인터컴의 다중 접지를 단일 접지로 변경하고 DC Offset 전압을 필터링하는 개선된 방안을 적용하였다. 이를 통해 편대 비행 시 수신잡음 저감을 통하여 항공기 통신 시스템의 품질을 향상시켰으며, 지상 및 비행 시험의 결과로도 확인하였다.

• 조명전기설비학회논문지
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• 제28권9호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2014

Brushless Direct Current(BLDC) Motor is essential to measure a rotor position because of that this motor type needs to synchronize the rotor's position and changeover phase current instead of a brush and commutator used on the existing dc motor. Recently, many researches have studied on sensorless control drive for BLDC motor. The conventional control methods are a compensation value dq, Kalman filter, Fuzzy logic, Neurons neural network, and the like. These methods has difficulties of detecting BEMF accurately at low speed because of low BEMF voltage and switching noise. And also, the operation is long and complex. So, it is required a high-performance microprocessor. Therefore, it is not suitable for a small BLDC motor sensorless drive. This paper presents control methods suitable for economic small BLDC motor sensorless drive which are an improved design of the BEMF detection circuit, simplifying a complex algorithm and computation time reduction. The improved motor sensorless drive is verified stability and validity through being designed, manufactured and analyzed.