• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2004.06b
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• pp.601-604
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• 2004

In this paper, we propose a driving circuit that can be operated with a lower voltage than that of the conventional circuit without reducing the discharge voltage. the circuit proposed in this paper has a merit to improve the electrical characteristics because it can be composed of switching devices with low voltage. The operation and efficiency using real devices. The features of the circuit proposed in this paper are as follows; the power loss can be decreased by the use of low voltage, the cost if the driving circuit for PDP can be reduced by the use of switching devices operated with low voltage.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.1158-1167
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• 2015

In this paper, a new hybrid DC-DC converter is proposed for electric vehicle 3.3 kW on-board battery charger applications, which can be modulated in a phase-shift manner under a fixed frequency or frequency variation. By integrating a half-bridge (HB) LLC series resonant converter (SRC) into the conventional phase-shift full-bridge (PSFB) converter with a full-bridge rectifier, the proposed converter has many advantages such as a full soft-switching range without duty-cycle loss, zero-current-switching operation of the rectifier diodes, minimized circulating current, reduced filter inductor size, and better utilization of transformers than other hybrid dc-dc converters. The feasibility of the proposed converter has been verified by experimental results under an output voltage range of 250-420V dc at 3.3 kW.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2004.07b
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• pp.747-751
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• 2004

In recent years power supplies for telecommunication equipment is required smaller size and higher efficiency, and low noise operation. There exists a series resonant converter in which the switching loss is reduced in order to realize a high efficiency converter. However, if a constant voltage regulation is required. The switching frequency varies widely. In this paper we study the details of resonant DC-DC converter in which the realize a high efficiency converter.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.647-655
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• 2013

In this paper, an approach to reduce the common-mode voltage and to eliminate narrow pulse for implemented AC-DC matrix converters is presented. An improved space vector modulation (SVM) strategy is developed by replacing the zero space vectors with suitable pairs of active ones. Further, while considering the commutation time, the probability of narrow pulse in the conventional and proposed SVM methods are derived and compared. The advantages of the proposed scheme include: a 50% reduction in the peak value of the common-mode voltage; improved input and output performances; a reduction in the switching loss by a reduced number of switching commutations and a simplified implementation via software. Experimental results are presented to demonstrate the correctness of the theoretical analysis, as well as the feasibility of the proposed strategy.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2005.04a
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• pp.172-175
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• 2005

Recently international regulations governing the amount of harmonic currents(e.g IEC 61000-3-2) became mandatory and active Power factor correction (PFC) pre-regulator circuit became inevitable for the AC/DC converters. Among these topologies, the boost topology represents an optimum solution for a PFC pre-regulation in a high power application. This paper propose improved ZVT(Zero Voltage Transition) AC/DC PFC Boost using the average current control employing a soft-switching technique of the auxiliary switch with a minimum number of components. The conventional ZVT PFC Boost Converter has a disadvantage that the auxiliary switch turns off hard, which influences the overall efficiency and the EMI problem. In this paper, an improved ZVT PFC Boost converter using active snubber is proposed to minimize the switching loss of the auxiliary. The prototype of 100kHz, 640W system was implemented to show the improved performance.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.58 no.9
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• pp.1667-1673
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• 2009

This paper presents a application of new algorithm for feeder reconfiguration problem in distribution systems. Harmony Search (HS) algorithm, which is motivated from the musical performance, is used to reconfigure distribution systems so that active power losses are globally minimized with turning on/off the sectionalizing and the tie-line switches. In optimization processing, the HS algorithm has searching ability for the global optimal solution, simple coding of the iteration procedure, and fast convergence to get the solution. The HS algorithm is tested on 15 buses and 69 buses distribution systems, and the results prove its effectiveness to determine appropriate switching options without the occurrence of any misdetermination in switching and get the minimum power loss.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers A
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• v.51 no.1
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• pp.7-14
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• 2002

In power system study, relibility assessment has been an important topic during past several decards because sudden power interruption can bring about enormous economic loss. although the size of a substation is smaller than that of generation system or transmission system, switching actions after fault(s) make reliability assessment of substation rather complex situations such as switching actions easily and permit various probability distributions in describing substation elements. Despite this ability of Monte Carlo simulation, one-parameter exponential distribution is still popular in this reliability assessment. This paper examines the characteristics of several two-parameter probability distributions, and offers new parameter decision rule based on average and variance of the target to be modelled. In case study, this paper shows the profits by using Weibull distribution which is one of two-parameter probabilistic distributions instead of exponential one.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2002.06a
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• pp.9-11
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• 2002

These days, electromagnetic radiation noise and switching losses of static converter become harmful. Many resonant inverters with radiation techniques solve their such problems. Auxiliary Resonant Commutated Pole Inverter (ARCP) was proposed. but it has two demerits. In circuit configuration. It isn't constructed by 2 in 1 IGBT modules, Besides, control is complicated because of neutral point voltage control and boost. current control. This paper proposes a new auxiliary resonant inverter which solved two demerits. In addition, it deals efficiency which compared with hard switching inverter and result of separation of power loss

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2001.07a
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• pp.471-474
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• 2001

In this paper, a communication system that is not using the communication line but power line is presented. It will be very useful for an information-oriented society with tole-metering and home automation. Conventional system has a difficulty in transmitting information due to decreasing communication voltage. Proposed idea is a special type switching amplifier system which has a low inner resistance and using high efficient ferrite core in a coupling circuit. This new system is proposed to overcome the loss of conductor load and coupling circuit in a PLC system.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.283-289
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• 2012

In this paper, We proposed Separate Gate Technique(SGT) to improve the switching characteristics of Trench power MOSFET. Low gate-to-drain 전하 (Miller 전하 : Qgd) has to be achieved to improve the switching characteristics of Trench power MOSFET. A thin poly-silicon deposition is processed to form side wall which is used as gate and thus, it has thinner gate compared to the gate of conventional Trench MOSFET. The reduction of the overlapped area between the gate and the drain decreases the overlapped charge, and the performance of the proposed device is compared to the conventional Trench MOSFET using Silvaco T-CAD. Ciss(input capacitance : Cgs+Cgd), Coss(output capacitance : Cgd+Cds) and Crss(reverse recovery capacitance : Cgd) are reduced to 14.3%, 23% and 30% respectively. To confirm the reduction effect of capacitance, the characteristics of inverter circuit is comprised. Consequently, the reverse recovery time is reduced by 28%. The proposed device can be fabricated with convetional processes without any electrical property degradation compare to conventional device.