• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers C
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• v.48 no.2
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• pp.109-116
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• 1999

ZnO Varistor is an electronic ceramic device to absorb the surge voltage from low voltage to high. To investigate the puncture mechanism occurring in NnO varistor, the Voronoi simulation for formulating the relation between the applied voltage and the increase of the temperature inside grain is applied. The Voronoi network can realize the structure of the practical varistor better than the established simple network. Using the current through each grain and the voltage applied to the grain, Joule heating energy is calculated and the phenomenon that the puncture occurs can be analyzed quantitatively by simulating the electric and thermal characteristics according to the externally applied pulsed voltage.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 1989.06a
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• pp.87-92
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• 1989

We fabricated primary and secondary seed grains. Primary seed grains having larger grain size were obtained under the conditions that were 2.0m/o BaCO$_3$ and 10 hours sintering. The amount of primary seed grain to yield the largest secondary seed grains were choosed as 3 w/o and we fabricated the low voltage varistors which were joined the low voltage-oriented ZnO varistor system made by conventional method with the secondary seed grains. As a result, ZnO varistor showed appoximately 10V/mm of nonlinear resistance and 15-22 of nonlinear exponent.

• The Korean Journal of Ceramics
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.47-52
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• 1998

The nonuniformity of energy absorption capability of ZnO varistor is systematically discussed in this paper. The nonuniformity of electrical characteristics and microstructure leads to decrease the energy absorption capability of ZnO varistor. The energy absorption capabilities were measured under different current waves, the experimental results stated that they have highly scattered phenomena. The influences of varistor surface area and nonuniformity of electrical characteristics to the energy absorption capability and the nonuniformity of commercial ZnO varistors were analyzed. There is a high nonuniformity existing in the energy absorption capability of commercial ZnO varistors.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1997.07d
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• pp.1405-1407
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• 1997

A microstructure of realistic ZnO varistor is constructed by Voronoi network and studied via computer simulation. In this network, the grain boundary condition is fitted from the experimental data. The effect of the variation of the uniformity of the varistor on the electrical characteristic of the varistor is simulated by using this boundary condition.

• Korean Journal of Materials Research
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• v.16 no.7
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• pp.416-421
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• 2006

The varistor properties of ZPCCL-based ceramics were investigated at different $La_2O_3$ contents in the range of $0{\sim}2.0$ mol%. As $La_2O_3$ content increased, the ceramic density greatly increased in the range of $4.71{\sim}5.77\;g/cm^3$ and the varistor voltage greatly decreased in the range of $503.5{\sim}9.4$ V. The varistor with 0.5 mol% $La_2O_3$ exhibited good nonlinearity, in which the nonlinear exponent is 81.6 and the leakage current is 0.2 ${\mu}A$. Furthermore, the varistors exhibited the high electrical stability, with $%{\Delta}V_{1mA}=-1.1%,%{\Delta}{\alpha}=-3.7%$, and $%{\Delta}I_L=+100%$ for DC accelerated aging stress condition of 0.95 $V_{1mA}/150^{\circ}C/24$ h.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2005.07c
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• pp.2166-2168
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• 2005

This paper presents the frequency - dependent characteristics of leakage currents flowing through ZnO varistor. The leakage current - voltage (V-I) characteristic curves of the commercial ZnO varistor were measured. The resistive leakage current was increased with increasing the magnitude and frequency of the applied voltage in the low conduction region. The power losses of ZnO varistor increase as the frequency of applied voltage increases, because of the dielectric loss related to the frequency of the test voltage.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of IIIuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.355-359
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• 2006

ZnO varistor and GDT(gas discharge tube) have proven to be good protective devices because of their flexibility and high reliability. ZnO varistors are characterized by their excellent nonlinear properties. GDTs are used for applications in communication or signaling circuits because they have very low capacitance. Therefore, It is very important to understand the V-I characteristic of ZnO varistor and GDT for designing SPD to protect apparatus or personnel from high transient voltage. This paper gives experimental V-I characteristic data of ZnO varistor and GDT for protecting electronic equipments from surge up to maximum discharge current.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.150-158
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• 1999

The process of designing protective circuits against damage by transient overvoltages requires much work and expensive equipment. However computer simulation using PSpice can overcome these problems. In this paper a gas tube and a ZnO varistor Pspice-model considering the steepness of the wave-front were presented. The effects of various waveforms on the transient behaviors and firing volt-ages of a gas tube were modeled by controlled voltage source E controlled current source G and TABLE function of PSpice. And the nonlinear characteristics of a ZnO varistor were modeled by controlled voltage source E and H. To estimate the characteristics of the models proposed various waveforms specified in IEC Std. 1000310-4-5 were used in the simulation and the actual tests. The simulation results were compared with test results and showed good agreement.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1986.07a
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• pp.379-381
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• 1986

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2005.07a
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• pp.336-337
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• 2005

ZnO varistor ceramics were fabricated as a function of the amount of $Y_2O_3$ addition and sintered at $1250^{\circ}C$ for 2 hour. The average grain size was decreased from 14.2 ${\mu}m$ to 8.3 ${\mu}m$ with the amount of $Y_2O_3$ addition, and varistor voltage was increased from 433 V to 563 V with $Y_2O_3$ addition. Nonlinear coefficient a of all specimens were increased with the amount of $Y_2O_3$ more than 67, in case of $Y_2O_3$ 0.01wt% addition showed the excellent results of 87. And leakage current was less than $1{\mu}A$ at 82% of varistor voltage. The clamping voltage ratio of the specimens added 0.01wt% $Y_2O_3$ was 1.41 at 25A [8/20${\mu}s$]. At the specimen 0.01wt% $Y_2O_3$ addition. endurance of surge current and deviation of varistor voltage were 5700A/$cm^2$ and $\Delta$-2.86%, respectively.