• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers B
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• v.55 no.1
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• pp.9-15
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• 2006

The conventional hysterysis band DTC(Direct Torque Control) strategy have relatively high torque ripple at low speed and variable switching frequency according to motor speed even though it provides a fast torque response with very simple scheme consisted with only two hysteresis band comparators and a switching table for torque and flux control. In this paper, author proposed a new DTC scheme based on the torque slope and reference voltage control. The new scheme can maintain the minimized torque ripple and constant switching frequency. Experimental tests carried out with an 1.5kW induction motor drive system show improved dynamic characteristics and prove the feasibility of proposed strategy.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2013.08a
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• pp.241.1-241.1
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• 2013

최근 고집적화된 금속-산화막 반도체 metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) 소자는 크기가 점점 작아짐에 따라 얇은 산화막과 다양한 High-K 물질과 전극에 대하여 연구되고 있다. 이러한 소자의 열적 안정성과 균일성을 얻기 위해 다양한 열처리 방법이 사용되고 있으며, 일반적인 열처리 방법으로는 conventional thermal annealing (CTA)과 rapid thermal annealing (RTA)이 많이 이용되고 있다. 본 실험에서는 microwave radiation에 의한 열처리로 소자의 특성을 개선시킬 수 있다는 사실을 확인하였고, 상대적으로 $100^{\circ}C$ 이하의 저온에서도 공정이 이루어지기 때문에 열에 의한 소자 특성의 열화를 억제할 수 있으며, 또한 짧은 처리 시간 및 공정의 단순화로 비용을 효과적으로 절감할 수 있다. 본 실험에서는 metal-oxide-silicon (MOS) 구조의 capacitor를 제작한 다음, 기존의 CTA나 RTA 처리가 아닌 microwave radiation을 실시하여 MOS capacitor의 전기적인 특성에 미치는 microwave radiation 효과를 평가하였다. 본 실험은 p-type Si 기판에 wet oxidation으로 300 nm 성장된 SiO2 산화막 위에 titanium/aluminium (Ti/Al) 금속 전극을 E-beam evaporator로 형성하여 capacitance-voltage (C-V) 특성 및 current-voltage (I-V) 특성을 평가하였다. 그 결과, microwave 처리를 통해 flat band voltage와 hysteresis 등이 개선되는 것을 확인하였고, microwave radiation 파워와 처리 시간을 최적화하였다. 또한 일반적인 CTA 열처리 소자와 비교하여 유사한 전기적 특성을 확인하였다. 이와 같은 microwave radiation 처리는 매우 낮은 온도에서 공정이 이루어짐에도 불구하고 시료 내에서의 microwave 에너지의 흡수가 CTA나 RTA 공정에서의 열에너지 흡수보다 훨씬 효율적으로 이루어지며, 결과적으로 산화막과 실리콘 기판의 계면 특성 개선에 매우 효과적이라는 것을 나타낸다. 따라서, microwave radiation 처리는 향후 저온공정을 요구하는 nano-scale MOSFET의 제작 및 저온 공정이 필수적인 display 소자 제작의 해결책으로 기대한다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.27 no.3E
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• pp.69-76
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• 2008

Measurements of bubble size and distribution in the surface layer of the sea, wind speed, and variation of ocean environments were made continually over a four-day period in an experiment conducted in the South Sea of Korea during 17-20 September 2007. Theoretical background of bubble population model indicates that bubble population is a function of the depth, range and wind speed and bubble effects on sound speed shows that sound speed varies with frequency. Observational evidence exhibited that the middle size bubble population fit the model very well, however, smaller ones can not follow the model probably due to their short lifetime. Meanwhile, there is also a hysteresis effect of void fraction. Observational evidence also indicates that strong changes in sound speed are produced by the presence of swarms of micro bubbles especially from 7 kHz to 50 kHz, and calculation results are consistent with the measured data in the high frequency band, but inconsistent in the low frequency band. Based on the measurements of the sound speed and high frequency transmission configuration in the bubble layer, we present an estimation of underwater acoustic channel capacity in the bubble layer.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.11-19
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• 2005

This paper describes the two control techniques to perform the sensorless vector control of a PMSM by injecting the high frequency voltage to the stator terminal. The first technique is the estimation algorithm of the initial rotor position. A PMSM possesses the saliency which produces the ellipse of the stator current when the high frequency voltage is injected into the motor terminal. The major axis angle of the current ellipse gives the rotor position information at a standstill. The second control technique is a sensorless control algorithm that injects the high frequency voltage to the stator terminal in order to estimate the rotor position and speed. The rotor position and speed for sensorless vector control is calculated by appropriate signal processing to extract the position information from the stator current at low speeds or standstill. The proposed sensorless algorithm using the double-band hysteresis controller exhibits excellent reference tracking and increased robustness. Experimental results are presented to verify the feasibility of the proposed control schemes. Speed, position estimation and vector control were carried out on the floating point processor TMS320VC33.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.674-682
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• 2017

This paper presents an optimal initial firing angle control based on the energy consumption and regenerative energy of a parallel multi-pulse thyristor dual converter for urban railway power substations. To prevent short circuiting the thyristor dual converter, a hysteresis band for maintaining a zero-current discontinuous section (ZCDS) is essential during mode changes. During conversion from the ZCDS to forward or reverse mode, the DC trolley voltage can be stabilized by selecting the optimal initial firing angle without an overshoot and slow response. However, the optimal initial firing angle is different depending on the line impedance of each converter. Therefore, the control algorithm for tracking the optimal initial firing angle is proposed to eliminate the overshoot and slow response of DC trolley voltage. Simulations and experiments show that the proposed algorithm yields the fastest DC voltage control performance in the transient state by tracking the optimal firing angle.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.1235-1243
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• 2015

This paper presents a modified Space Vector Pulse Width Modulation Technique (SVPWM), which solves the well-known problem of voltage imbalance in the capacitors of a single-phase multilevel inverter. The proposed solution is based on the measurement of DC voltage levels at each capacitor of the inverter DC bus. The measurements are then used to adjust the size of the active vectors within the SVPWM algorithm to keep the voltage waveform sinusoidal regardless of any voltage imbalance on the DC link capacitors. When a voltage deviation exceeds a predetermined hysteresis band, the correspondent voltage vector is restricted to restore the voltage level to an acceptable threshold. Hence, the need for external voltage regulators for the voltage capacitors is eliminated. The functionality of the proposed algorithm is successfully demonstrated through simulations and experiments on a grid tied application.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1991.11a
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• pp.341-344
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• 1991

Current controlled pulse width modulation(PWM) for voltage source inverter(VSI) is one of the control method which controls the current directly so that we can perform vector control because it reduces the orders of differential equations of the induction machine. This paper propose a Fuzzy current controlled PWM which properly minimize a current ripple using Fuzzy theory in a constant switching frequency. This technique is applied to an electrical drive system with an induction machine(IM) by simulation. By comparison with the known classical method such as ramp comparison, hysteresis band method, our contribution shows the better performances.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.40 no.1
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• pp.91-98
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• 1991

Electrical conductivity of poly (3-alkylthiophene) derivatives with substituted long alkyl chain such as poly (3-butylthiophene), poly (3-hexylthiophene), poly (3-octylthiophene), poly (3-decylthiophene), poly (3-dodecylthiophene), and poly (3-docosylthiophene) increases with increasing temperature. However, after attaining a maxiumum value, it decreases with further temperature increase. Hysteresis is also observed in the temperature dependence of conductivity and absorption spectra. The absorption spectra also changes rapidly at the phase transition. These phenomena are discussed in terms of the increase of the energy band gap in the liquid states due to the decrease of co-planarity of thiophene rings accompanied by remarkable conformation changes.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1996.07a
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• pp.309-311
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• 1996

In this paper, we propose two types of novel discrete time current control methods of modified fixed band hysteresis control and optimal control for Parallel Resonant DC Link Inverters(PRDCLI). Because zero bus voltage intervals are generated on the DC link of PRDCLI, we can obtain the information of counter electromotive force(emf) by a simple estimation strategy. The proposed current controllers predict the currents of the next resonant cycle using the obstained information of counter emf and the average values of DC link voltages. The computer simulation results for a simple equivalent circuit of induction motor show that the proposed control methods are more effective than conventional methods.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 1997.07a
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• pp.352-356
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• 1997

This paper present the design of a novel neural-network (NN) based pulse-width modulation (PWM) techniques for a three-level power converter of electric trains along with nonlinear mapping of essential switching patterns and fault tolerance, which are inherent characteristics of NNs. Considering the importance of safety, power factor and harmonics of electric train power converters, two-level type and three-level type of power converters using NNs are precisely investigated and compared in computer simulation. A computer simulation shows that a new current control scheme provides an improved performance over a fixed-band hysteresis current control in many aspects.