• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.356-362
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• 2005

In this paper, in order to develop a simple and high efficient ballast without an external ignitor, a half-bridge type ballast with a coupled inductor and a frequency controlled synchronous rectifier is proposed. The Internal LC resonance of the buck converter is used to generate a high voltage pulse for the ignition, and the coupled inductor filter is used for steady state ripple cancellation. Also, a synchronous buck converter is applied for the DC/DC converter stage. In order to improve the efficiency of the ballast, a frequency control method is proposed. This scheme reduces a circulation current and trun off loss of the MOSFET switch on the constant power operation, which results in increase of the efficiency of the ballast system about 4$\%$, compared to a fixed frequency control. It consists a 2-stage version ballast with a PFC circuit. The results are verified nth hardware experiments.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1999.07f
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• pp.2678-2681
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• 1999

본 논문에서는 벅-부스트 컨버터와 하프브리지 컨버터가 결합된 형태가 구성된 고역률 AC-DC 컨버터를 제안한다. 제안된 컨버터는 주회로와 제어회로를 단단으로 구성함으로써 입력역률을 개선함과 동시에 출력전압의 제어가 가능한 구조이다. 역률개선용 컨버터로 벅-부스트 컨버터를 사용함으로써 링크 캐패시터의 DC 링크전압을 입력 라인전압의 최대값 이하로 유지하여 회로의 각 소자가 받는 전압 스트레스가 감소하므로 내압이 낮은 소자를 사용하여 효율을 높일 수 있다. 비대칭 제어기법을 통해 두 스위치의 데드타임을 일정하게 유지하여 스위칭손실을 줄였고 출력단에는 동기정류기를 사용하여 정류손실을 줄임으로써 효율을 개선한다.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.378-380
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• 2006

Adapter는 그 특성상 밀폐된 환경 및 대전류 구동으로 인하여 회로 소자의 발열이 매우 심각하며 이를 위해서는 주어진 사양에서 최고의 효율을 갖는 최적Topology의 선정이 중요하다. 따라서, 본 논문에서는 기존에 제안된 바 있는 몇 가지 회로에 대한 이론적 및 실험적 검증을 통해 200W 급 외장형 Adapter를 위한 최적 Topology를 제시하며 아울러 출력 정류 다이오드의 도통손실 및 발열을 개선하기 위해 동기정류기에 대하여 고찰한다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.81-94
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• 2010

This paper presents a high efficiency resonant asymmetrical half-bridge flyback converter. The primary half-bridge circuit of the converter operates by a soft-switching type using the asymmetrical pulse-width modulation (PWM) method with the resonant capacitance and transformer leakage inductance. The secondary flyback circuit of the proposed converter utilizes a synchronous rectifier, which operates by a new voltage-driven method with a simple drive circuit. Thus the proposed converter improves the total efficiency. This paper explains the operational principle of the proposed converter by each mode and shows the converter design consideration and a design example for the prototype converter, respectively. After that, the proposed simple driving technique of the synchronous rectifier by a voltage-driven method is explained, briefly. The designed prototype converter has wide input voltage (AC $V_{in,rms}$=75~265[V]), 5[V] DC output voltage, and 100[W] output power. To verify the excellent performance of the proposed converter, the designed prototype is implemented and experimented. The good performance of the proposed converter is shown through the experimental results.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.529-536
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• 2019

In order to apply a piezoelectric energy harvester to a smart sensor system, an energy harvest interface circuit including an AC-DC rectifier is required. In this paper, we compared the performance of full bridge rectifier, which is a typical energy harvester interface circuit, and synchronous piezoelectric energy harvest interface circuit by using board-level simulation. As a result, the output power of a synchronous electric charge extraction(: SECE) circuit is about four times larger than that of the full bridge rectifier, and there is little load variation. And a high voltage comparator, which is essential for the SECE circuit for the piezoelectric energy harvester with an output voltage of 40V or more, was designed using 0.35 um BCD process. The SECE circuit using the designed high-voltage comparator proved that the output power is 427 % higher than the FBR circuit.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2003.07a
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• pp.85-88
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• 2003

In this Paper, we report the experimental results of the Forward-flyback U-U converter with current doubler and synchronous rectifier. The experimental converter, that has a output voltage 3.3V, output current 20A, maximum power of 66W, switching frequency of 290kHz and input voltage range of 36-75V, has been successfully implemented. As a result, in the entire voltage range the measured full load efficiency was above 85$\%$, and the output voltage was regulated at 3.3V within $\pm3{\%}$ tolerance.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2005.07a
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• pp.289-291
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• 2005

In this paper results of the experiment which used LLC resonant half bridge DC-DC converter to a portable electrical equipment. LLC resonance Half Bridge DC-DC converter which was used in this experiment improved an efficiency because it reduced switching, conduction losses and with synchronous rectifier. As a result of the experiment, this proposed converter could verified an increase of 2% to the efficiency more than diode rectifier.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2005.07a
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• pp.295-297
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• 2005

This paper presents a novel current driving method for the synchronous rectifier (SR) in a Flyback topology. The proposed current driven synchronous rectifier features low Power loss, good performance and the gate voltage of FET in the synchronous rectifier is easily controlled by zener voltage. The proposed SR driving method is implemented in a 200W Flyback converter with 400Vdc input and achieved excellent performance at full load.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2013.07a
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• pp.413-414
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• 2013

An LLC resonant converter is widely used due to many advantages over others. However, it is still not used in high current applications because it is difficult to drive the synchronous rectifiers. In this paper, a novel gate driving sheme for secondary-side synchronous rectifiers is introduced and its simulation results are also presented

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2003.07b
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• pp.1163-1165
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• 2003

This paper presents the TTFC(Two Transistor Forward Converter) using Synchronous Rectifier. The principle of operation, feature ana design considerations are illustrated and verified through the experiment with a 200W 100kHz MOSFET based experimental circuit.