• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1987.07a
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• pp.553-555
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• 1987

In the standard system of low voltage-oriented ZnO varistor,a small amount of $Sb_2O_3$ was added to improve the nonlinear exponent and then to find the variation of breakdown characteristics, 0.1m/o-SiO and 0.1m/o-$TiO_2$, respectively,were added We considered relationship between the breakdown voltage of systems and the microstructure. We found that the system containing 0.1m/o-$Sb_2O_3$ showed very high nonlinear exponent. And we found that SiO enhanced breakdown voltage and $TiO_2$ lowered it.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1987.07a
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• pp.565-568
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• 1987

In order to determine the standard composition of ZnO varistor with higher nonlinearity, various contents of $MnO_2$, $Co_2O_3$ were added to ZnO-1.0m/o $Bi_2O_3$ system. Also, samples that contained small amount of Sb, Si-oxides in standard composition determined before were fabricated. As a result, the standard composition of higher nonlinearity-oriented ZnO varistor was shown as ZnO-1.0 m/o $Bi_2O_3$-1.0m/o $MnO_2$-1.0m/o $Co_2O_3$ and $Sb_2O_3$ largely enhanced nonlinear exponent and nonlinear resistance, hut SiO largely enhanced nonlinear exponent only.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1996.11a
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• pp.279-281
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• 1996

This paper deals with the two stage surge protection device by using varistor and LC low pass filter. Recently varistor alone has been used with overvoltage protection devices for the AC power mains and has same problems associated with high remnant voltage and noise. In this work, in order to improve the cutoff performance of surge protection device, the lightning surge protection device having two stage hybrid circuit for an AC single phase mains was designed and fabricated. Operation characteristics and surge clamping performance of the surge protection device in an $8/20{\mu}s$ surge current are investigated. As a consequence, it is found that the proposed two stage surge protective device for AC power mains has a variety of advantages such as a smaller clamping voltage, high frequency noise reduction and large clamping capacity.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2005.07a
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• pp.328-329
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• 2005

ZnO 바리스터의 소결조건에 따른 바리스터 특성과 유전특성을 조사하였다. 소결조건에서 소결시간 및 시간에 따라 바리스터 전압의 변화를 볼 수 있었으며 적정소결온도에서 바리스터 전압 $V_{1mA}$ 및 $V_{10mA}/V_{1mA}$특성은 225 ~ 250. 0.85 ~ 0.9의 특성을 얻을 수 있었다. 특히, 유전특성의 경우 주파수에 따라 정전용량의 변화가 높은 온도에서 소결한 경우 높게 나타났으며 적정 소결온도에서는 유전율은 720 ~ 740, 유전손실은 2.5% 이하의 값을 얻을 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.32 no.3
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• pp.241-245
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• 2019

This work presents the response characteristics of a ZnO varistor to conductive EMP. An E1 pulse, standardized to MIL-STD-188-125-1, was applied to the varistors wherein the residual current and response times were measured with the applied E1 pulse current. Additionally, the response time was measured according to the length of the connection path. Consequently, the amplitude of the residual voltage through the ZnO varistors was increased with increasing amplitude of the applied E1 pulse current. As the length of the connection path increased, the operating response time and residual peak voltage also increased. These results indicate that the response characteristics of ZnO varistors can be applied to basic data to support the use of varistors as a protective measure against conductive EMP.

• Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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• v.39 no.3
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• pp.286-293
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• 2002

Microstructure and the electrical porperties of a ZnO-based multilayered chip-type varistor(abbreviated as MLV) with Ag/Pd(7:3) inner electrode have been studied as a function of firing of temperature. At 1100$^{\circ}$C, inner electrode layers began to show nonuniform thickness and small voids, which resulted in significant disappearance of the electrode pattern and delamination at 1100$^{\circ}$C. MLVs fired at 950$^{\circ}$C showed large degradation in leakage current, probably due to incomplete redistribution of liquid and transition metal elements in pyrochlore phase decomposition. Those fired at 1100$^{\circ}$C and above, on the other hand, revealed poor varistor characteristics and their reproductibility, which are though to stem from the deformation of inner electrode pattern, the reaction between electrode materials and ZnO-based ceramics, and the volatilization of $Bi_2O_3$. Throughout the firing temperature range of 950∼1100$^{\circ}$C, capacitance and leakage current increased while breakdown voltage and peak current decreased with the increase of firing temperature, but nonlinear coefficient and clamping ratio kept almost constant at ∼30 and 1.4, respectively. In particular, those fired between 1000$^{\circ}$C and 1050$^{\circ}$C showed stable varistor characteristics with high reproducibility. It seems that Ag/Pd(7:3) alloy is one of the electrode materials applicable to most ZnO-based MLVs incorporating with $Bi_2O_3$ when cofired up to 1050$^{\circ}$C.

• Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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• v.40 no.11
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• pp.1067-1072
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• 2003

The electrical stability of the varistor ceramics composed of Zn-Pr-Co-Cr-Dy oxides-based varistors was investigated at 0.0∼2.0 mol% Dy$_2$O$_3$ content under DC accelerated aging stress. The ceramic density was increased up to 0.5 mol% Dy$_2$O$_3$ whereas further addition of Dy$_2$O$_3$ decreased sintered ceramic density. The density sailently affected the stability due to the variation of conduction path. The nonlinearity of varistor ceramics was greatly improved above 45 in the nonlinear exponent and below nearly 1.0 ${\mu}$A by incorporating Dy$_2$O$_3$. Under 0.95 V$\_$1mA/150$^{\circ}C$/24 h stress state, the varistor ceramics doped with 0.5 mol% Dy$_2$O$_3$ exhibited the highest electrical stability, in which the variation rates of varistor voltage, nonlinear exponent, and leakage current were -0.9%, -14.4%, and +483.3%, respectively. The variation rates of relative permittivity and dissipation factor were +7.1% and +315.4%, respectively. The varistors with further addition of Dy$_2$O$_3$ exhibited very unstable state resulting in the thermal runaway due to low density.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.34 no.5
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• pp.186-192
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• 1985

Co2O3 additive effects on the electrical properties in ZnO varistor are investigated. As the Co Cations being substituted and ionized normally to a divalent state for Zn in the lattice site increase, the leakage current in the prebreakdown region decreases and the so-called

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1998.07d
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• pp.1471-1474
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• 1998

ZnO Varistor with composition of ZnO, $Bi_2O_3$, $Sb_2O_3$, CoO, NiO, $MnO_2$, $Cr_2O_3$, $Al_2O_3$ was fabricated by sintering methods. The purpose of this paper is to present certified voltage-current test data and a summary of electrical characteristics of the ZnO varistors.

• The Korean Journal of Ceramics
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.357-362
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• 1999

ZnO varistors containing cobalt, praseodymium and calcium oxides were prepared. The current-voltage charcteristics and microstructures of the specimens were investigated with respect to calcium addition and sintering temperature. The potential barrier heights and the carrier densities were estimated from C-V relations. The compatibility of Ag-Pd as an internal electrode for multilayer chip varistor was also examined.