• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제23권8호
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• pp.593-600
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• 2010

In this paper, High brightness LED (light-emitting diodes) driver IC (integrated circuit) using new current sensing circuit is proposed. This LED driver IC can provide a constant current with high current precision over a wide input voltage range. The proposed current-sensing circuit is composed of a cascode current sensor and a current comparator with only one reference voltage. This IC minimizes the voltage stress of the MOSFET (metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor) from the maximum input voltage and has low power consumption and chip area by using simple-structured comparator and minimum bias current. To confirm the functioning and characteristics of our proposed LED driver IC, we designed a buck converter. The LED current ripple of the designed IC is in ${\pm}5%$ and a tolerance of the average LED current is lower than 2.43%. This shows much improved feature than the previous method. Also, protections for input voltage and operating temperature are designed to improve the reliability of the designed IC. Designed LED driver IC uses 1.0 ${\mu}m$ X-Fab. BiCMOS process parameters and electrical characteristics and functioning are verified by spectre (Cadence) simulation.

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 2008년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.218-220
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• 2008

This paper describes buck converter's MOSFET driver for high-brightness LED strings. The power driving high-side MOSFET is supplied from the power source of control circuit part. The practical considerations and future work are also described.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2010년도 하계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.9-9
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• 2010

In this paper, High Brightness LED driver IC using new current sensing circuit is proposed. This LED driver IC can provide a constant current with high current precision over a wide input voltage range. The proposed current-sensing circuit is composed of a cascode current sensor and a current comparator with only one reference voltage. This IC minimizes the voltage stress of the MOSFET from the maximum input voltage and has low power consumption and chip area by using simple-structured comparator and minimum bias current. The LED current ripple of the designed IC is in ${\pm}5%$ and a tolerance of the average LED current is lower than 2.43%. This shows much improved feature than the previous method. Also, protections for input voltage and operating temperature are designed to improve the reliability of the designed IC. Designed LED driver IC uses $1{\mu}m$ X-Fab. BiCMOS process parameters and electrical characteristics and functioning are verified by spectre(Cadence) simulation.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제50권10호
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• pp.135-141
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 적색, 녹색, 청색의 세 가지 고휘도 LED를 하나의 소켓에 설치하여, 하나의 화소체 단위를 만들고, 이 화소체들의 조합과 다수 모듈들의 조합으로 문자, 그래픽, 동영상 등의 다양한 영상을 표출할 수 있는 풀컬러 전광판 모듈 및 제어장치를 개발하였다. LED 전광판 드라이버 모듈은 일정한 단위 면적에 RGB 픽셀을 조합한 도트에 드라이버 회로가 내장된다. 기존의 이러한 모듈형태는 특정 공간 및 설치 공간에 고정된 해상도를 구현하므로 가격이 높게 책정될 수 있다. 이러한 단점을 극복하기 위하여 임의의 피치 간격으로 배열이 자유로운 LED 드라이버 및 이에 따른 LED 픽셀 모듈을 개발하였다. 본 논문의 전광판 모듈은 기존 각각의 LED 모듈을 구동함에 있어서 병렬 방식의 데이터 처리 방식을 픽셀을 기준으로 그 위의 서브 모듈과 그 상위에 마스터 모듈의 개념을 도입하고 각각의 화소를 직병렬 통신 방식으로 개선함으로 인해서 처리할 수 있는 데이터의 속도를 초당 36프레임 이상으로 끌어올려서 상대적으로 데이터의 처리량이 많은 동화상의 경우에도 원활한 디스플레이를 할 수 있도록 하였다. 또한 기존 전광판의 깜박거림 현상이 개선되어 보다 선명한 영상이 제공되는 효과도 있다.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.311-318
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• 2014

본 논문은 의료영상시스템, 공장자동화 시스템에서 핵심기술인 정확한 검사와 계측을 위하여 보다 선명하고 안정정인 환경을 제공하기 위한 조명으로 고휘도 LED를 이용한 조명광원의 제어기를 개발하였다. 고휘도 LED 전용드라이버를 장착하여 정전류 방식으로 안정된 전원을 공급하도록 설계하고, 32비트 ARM 프로세서 코어를 사용하여 화상처리 시 필수적인 요소인 광량을 256단계로 나누어 리모트 컨트롤 및 외부 인터페이스가 가능하도록 하여 볼륨의 저항 값 오차로 인하여 발생되는 밝기 값의 부정확을 방지하고 디지털화함으로써 빛의 재현성을 개선하였다. 아나로그 전원에 비하여 조광 범위가 넓고 낮은 레벨에서도 조광이 가능하도록 설계 하였으며 또한 RS-485 통신기능을 추가하여 외부장치로부터 데이터를 받아 사용자가 광량조절 및 ON/OFF 제어가 가능하도록 개발 하였다.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.358-365
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• 2011

LED는 친환경적 특성, 긴 수명, 우수한 효율 등의 장점이 있어 최근 기존의 백열전등 및 형광등을 대체하는 조명 수단으로 각광받고 있다. 또한, LED는 전기를 빛으로 변환하는 속도가 굉장히 빠른 반도체로 정보의 변조 및 인코딩이 용이하기 때문에 통신 소자로서 활용이 가능하다. 이를 이용하여 기존의 조명 기능을 수행함과 동시에 부가적으로 근거리 무선 통신을 수행하는 것을 가시광 통신 시스템이라 한다. 기존의 전압원 구동 가시광 통신 시스템의 경우, 스위치의 선형 영역 구동으로 인해 전력 변환 효율의 저하 및 발열이 심각하였다. 본 논문에서는 스위치를 스위칭 영역에서 구동시킴으로써 전력 변환 효율과 발열의 획기적인 개선이 가능한 고효율 스위칭 방식의 LED 드라이버를 제안한다. 또한 3MHz 무선 오디오 통신 시스템에 제안된 20W급 LED 드라이버를 적용하여 그 타당성을 검증한다.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.555-566
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• 2015

A TRIAC dimming LED driver that can control the brightness of LED arrays for a wide range of source voltage variations is proposed in this paper. Unlike conventional PWM LED drivers, the proposed LED driver adopts a TRIAC switch, which inherently guarantees zero current switching and has been proven to be quite reliable over its long lifetime. Unlike previous TRIAC type LED drivers, the proposed LED driver is composed of an LC input filter and a variable switched capacitance, which is modulated by the TRIAC turn-on timing. Thus, the LED power regulation and dimming control, which are done by a volume resistor in the same way as the conventional TRIAC dimmers, can be simultaneously performed by the TRIAC control circuit. Because the proposed LED driver has high efficiency and a long lifetime with a high power factor (PF) and low total harmonic distortion (THD) characteristics, it is quite adequate for industrial lighting applications such as streets, factories, parking garages, and emergency stairs. A simple step-down capacitive power supply circuit composed of passive components only is also proposed, which is quite useful for providing DC power from an AC source without a bulky and heavy transformer. A prototype 60 W LED driver was implemented by the proposed design procedure and verified by simulation and experimental results, where the efficiency, PF, and THD are 92%, 0.94, and 6.3%, respectively. The LED power variation is well mitigated to below ${\pm}2%$ for 190 V < $V_s$ < 250 V by using the proposed simple control circuit.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보디스플레이학회 2007년도 7th International Meeting on Information Display 제7권2호
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• pp.1642-1645
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• 2007

The brightness of LED changes according to the current flowing through LEDs. The current mirror was used to drive LEDs effectively. The reference current of the current mirror was usually controlled by the resistor but the size of this resistor is very large and this resistor consumes too much power for high power LED backlight driving. The reference current of the current mirror LED driver was controlled by using flyback converter at small size with low power consumption in this paper. The concept of active current source was presented.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.320-326
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• 2014

In this paper, the new smart dimming algorithm which is mixed with PWM and PAM control method is proposed for reducing the power consumption of LED TV Backlight. The proposed technique is using the curve characteristics of LED forward voltage and current which is proportionally changing LED forward voltage as changing LED forward current. Therefore, each PWM and PAM control method has different LED forward voltage and current in the same brightness condition. The PWM control method adjusts the brightness of LED TV Backlight by only varying the duty ratio of PWM and constantly sustaining the amplitude of LED forward current and voltage. So, the level of LED forward current and voltage in the PWM control method is relatively high and constant regardless of duty ratio of PWM. On the other hand, the PAM control method adjusts the brightness of LED TV Backlight by directly varying the level of LED forward current. So, the level of LED forward current and voltage in the PAM control method is lowered according to the brightness level. For the above-mentioned reason, the PAM control method has the advantage of reducing the total power consumption of LED TV Backlight at the brightness condition of below 100%, compared with PWM control method. By implementing this characteristic to LED driver circuit with control algorithm in MCU, the power consumption of LED TV Backlight can expect to be reduced. The effectiveness of the proposed method, new smart dimming algorithm, CPWAM(=Conditional Pulse Width Amplitude Modulation), has been verified by experimental results.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제10권5호
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• pp.2031-2039
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• 2015

In the LED lighting industry, the dimming function in the LED lamp is required by demands of many consumers. To drive this LED lighting, various types of power converters have been applied. Among them, an LLC resonant converter could be applied for high power LED lighting because of its high efficiency and high power density, etc. The function of power factor correction (PFC) might be added to it. In this paper, a dimmable single-stage asymmetrical LLC resonant converter is proposed. The proposed converter performs both input-current harmonics reduction and PFC using the discontinuous conduction mode (DCM). Also, the lower voltage stress across switching devices as well as the zero voltage switching (ZVS) in switching devices is realized by the proposed topology. It can reduce cost and has high efficiency of the driver. In addition, the regulation of the output power by variable switching frequency can vary the brightness of a light. In the proposed converter, one of the attractive advantages doesn’t need any extra control circuits for the dimming function. To verify the performance of the proposed converter, simulation and experimental results from a 300W prototype are provided.