• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.35-42
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• 2010

This paper presents the Two-stage LED Driving system using LLC resonant converter for LED lighting application. Due to the existence of the nonisolation DC/DC converter to control the LED current and the light intensity, the conventional three-stage LED Driving system has the problem of low power conversion efficiency. To solve this problem, a novel scheme without any nonisolation DC/DC converter is proposed, in which, the isolated DC/DC converter, e.g., LLC resonant converter in the paper, can perform the LED current control and stage, e.g., PFC stage and LLC stage, the efficiency can be significantly improved. Moreover, the cost and the volume of the whole LED driving system can be reduced compared to those of the conventional ones. The operational principle and the characteristics of the proposed scheme are presented. The proposed scheme is verified experimentally with a 45W output prototype LED driver.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2017.07a
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• pp.166-167
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• 2017

높은 효율과 긴 수명 등으로 형광등을 대체하며 차세대 조명기구로 각광받고 있는 LED 는 필수불가결적으로 PFC 및 DC-DC 컨버터 등으로 구성된 구동회로가 필요하다. 일반적으로 이러한 LED 구동회로의 조건으로 전체 90 % 이상의 고효율이 요구되고 있으나 Two-Stage 로 구성된 구동회로의 하드 스위칭에 따른 손실 및 기타 요건들에 의한 전력소모로 인해 실질적으로 완벽하게 조건을 달성하기 까다롭다. 최근에는 이러한 구동조건을 달성하기 위해 브릿지리스 PFC 컨버터를 적용한 Two-Stage 를 사용하거나 순환 전류 및 스위칭 손실이 보다 적은 LLC 공진 컨버터를 LED 용 구동회로에 접목하는 추세이다. 이에 따라서 본 논문은 LED 조명용 Single-stage LLC 공진 컨버터를 구성하여 동작특성을 분석하였다.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.449-456
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• 2009

The RMS(Root Mean Square) current stress reduction technique for the PFC link capacitor is proposed. Although the various parameter is exist for optimizing the link capacitor, the RMS current stress is the most weighty practical parameter. The proposed C-L filter can reduce effectively the RMS current stress by filtering the output current. And with the C-L-L-C filter proposed in this paper, the more RMS current stress can be reduce because it filters not only the output current, like C-L filter, but also the input current of DC/DC stage. The proposed filter is simple to design and have no effect on the control part of the PFC because of the very low crossover frequency. To confirm the validity of proposed filter, theoretical analysis, the design guide, verification of experimental results are presented.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2003.07a
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• pp.352-357
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• 2003

A new single stage power factor correction(PFC) AC/DC converter based on zero voltage switching(ZVS) full bridge topology is proposed. Since the series-connected two transformers act as both output inductor and main transformer by turns, the proposed converter has a wide ZVS range without additional devices for ZVS. Furthermore, since there is no need to use an output inductor, the proposed converter features high power density. The proposed converter gives the good power factor correction and low line current harmonics distortion. A mode analysis and experiment results are presented to verify the validity of the proposed converter.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.694-700
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• 1998

A novel zero-voltage-transition (ZVT) isolated PWM boost converter for single stage power factor correction (PFC) is presented to improve the performance of the previously presented ZVT converter[8]. A simple auxiliary circuit which includes only one active switch provides zero-voltage-switching (ZVS) condition to all semiconductor devices. (Two active switches are required for the previous ZVT converter) This leads to reduced cost and simplified control circuit comparing to the previous ZVT converter. The ZVS is achieved for wide line and load ranges with minimum device voltage and current stresses. Operation principle, control strategy and features of the proposed converter are presented and verified by the experimental results from a 1.5 kW, 100 KHz laboratory prototype.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.372-380
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• 2004

This paper proposes a single-power-stage high frequency resonant AC-DC converter with high power factor using ZVS(Zero Voltage Switching), and integrates a conventional converter with two stage into single stage converter. Input power factor is possible to be improved as a high power factor because inductor for power factor correction(PFC) is connected in input and converter is operated in discontinued current mode(DCM) with constant duty cycle and variable switching frequency. The conventional converter with two stage need to add a switch in order to control a power factor, but single stage converter have a advantage that system is simple and cost is down, confidence is improved, etc. This paper described a operation principle and characteristic analysis for single stage AC-DC converter with high power factor and have evaluated characteristic values by using normalized parameter. We make a experimental equipment using MOSFET as a switching device on the basis of characteristic values obtained from characteristic evaluations and we conform a rightfulness of theoretical analysis by comparing theoretical waveforms and experimental waveforms.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.655-661
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• 2011

This paper presents two topologies for single-stage single-phase double-buck type PFC converters, designed to operate at high power factor, near sinusoidal input currents and adjustable output voltage. Unlike the known buck type PFC topologies, in which the output voltage is always lower than the maximum input voltage, the proposed converters can operate at output voltages higher than the ac input peak voltage. A reduced number of switches on the main path of the current are another characteristic of the two proposed topologies. To shape the input line currents, a fast and robust controller based on a sliding mode approach is proposed. This active non-linear control strategy, applied to these converters allows high quality input currents. A Proportional Integral (PI) controller is adopted to regulate the output voltage of the converters. This external voltage controller modulates the amplitude of the sinusoidal input current references. The performances of the presented rectifiers are verified with experimental results.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.243-250
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• 2009

This paper provides an novel two-stage LED driver circuit for LED lighting equipment. The proposed driver circuit reduces voltage stress in LED driver circuit by using multi-level output voltage of PFC flyback converter. The proposed circuit satisfies IEC61000-3-2 class C regulation that is applied to lighting equipment over 25W and uses PWM to control brightness of wide extent. In this paper, the principle of proposed driver circuit is presented. A prototype has been built and tested. The experimental results are presented to show the validity of the proposed circuit.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.264-270
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• 2011

In this paper a novel passive snubber is proposed, which can suppress the voltage spike across the bridge leg of the isolated full-bridge boost topology. The snubber is composed of capacitors, inductors and diodes. Two capacitors connected in series are used to absorb the voltage spike and the energy of each capacitor can be transferred to the load during one switching cycle by the resonance of the inductors and capacitors. The operational principle of the passive snubber is analyzed in detail based on a three-phase power factor correction (PFC) converter, and the design considerations of both the converter and the snubber are given. Finally, a 3kW laboratory-made prototype is built. The experimental results verify the theoretical analysis and evaluations. They also prove the validity and feasibility of the proposed methods.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.246-255
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• 2004

Ac-dc PWM single-stage converters that integrate the PFC and dc-dc conversion functions in a single switching converter have been proposed to try to minimize the cost and complexity associated with implementing two separate and independent switch-mode converters. In this paper, two simple ac-dc single-stage PWM full-bridge converters are considered - one current-fed, the other voltage-fed. The operation of both converters is explained and their properties are noted. Experimental results obtained from simple lab prototypes of both converters are presented, then compared and discussed.