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Reverse-Conducting IGBT Using MEMS Technology on the Wafer Back Side

  • Won, Jongil;Koo, Jin Gun;Rhee, Taepok;Oh, Hyung-Seog;Lee, Jin Ho
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.35 no.4
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    • pp.603-609
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    • 2013
  • In this paper, we present a 600-V reverse conducting insulated gate bipolar transistor (RC-IGBT) for soft and hard switching applications, such as general purpose inverters. The newly developed RC-IGBT uses the deep reactive-ion etching trench technology without the thin wafer process technology. Therefore, a freewheeling diode (FWD) is monolithically integrated in an IGBT chip. The proposed RC-IGBT operates as an IGBT in forward conducting mode and as an FWD in reverse conducting mode. Also, to avoid the destructive failure of the gate oxide under the surge current and abnormal conditions, a protective Zener diode is successfully integrated in the gate electrode without compromising the operation performance of the IGBT.

Electrical Characteristics of 1,200 V Reverse Conducting-IGBT (1,200 V Reverse Conducting IGBT의 전기적 특성 분석)

  • Kim, Se Young;Ahn, Byoungsub;Kang, Ey Goo
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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    • v.33 no.3
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    • pp.177-180
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    • 2020
  • This paper focuses on the 1,200-V level reverse conducting-insulated gate bipolar transistor (RC-IGBT). The structure of the RC-IGBT has an n+ collector at the collector terminal. The breakdown voltage, Vth, Vce-sat, and turn-off time, and the electrical characteristics of a field-stop IGBT (FS-IGBT) and RC-IGBT are compared and analyzed using simulations. Based on the results, the RC-IGBT obtained a turn-off time of 320.6 ㎲ and a breakdown voltage of 1,720 V, while the FS-IGBT obtained a turn-off time of 742.2 ㎲ and a breakdown voltage of 1,440 V. Therefore, RC-IGBTs have faster on/off transitions and a higher breakdown voltage, which can reduce the size of the element.

The Effects of Reverse Mortgage Including Lands for Rural Elderly Households (농지를 포함한 농촌형 역모기지 효과)

  • Lee, Hee-Sook
    • Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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    • v.45 no.9
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    • pp.99-111
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    • 2007
  • The purpose of this study was to find the effects of reverse mortgage including lands for rural elderly households. The data were drawn from 2005 Farm Household Economy Survey. And 1,165 households, which householder age were 65 to 75 and owned lands, were selected. The major findings as follows; First, in the case of conducting mortgage using only lands in rural area, the average substitute rate of current consumption was found to be over 100%(LTV=100%). This result implied that the conducting mortgage with land could be very effective for enhancing economic well-being of rural elderly households. Second, in the case of conducting mortgage using only shelters in rural area, the average substitute rate of current consumption was found to be only 25.7% (LTV=100%). This result implied that the conducting mortgage with only shelters could be no use for enhancing economic well-being of rural elderly households. Third, with FTA, it is time to rebuild agribusiness from small farm with family business to scale of farm business. It is expected the mortgage system with lands may very effective for not only enhancing economic well-being of rural elderly households, but for better farm business.

A Study on Hull Deflection and Shaft Alignment Interaction in VLCC

  • Lee Yong-Jin;Kim Ue-Kan
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.29 no.7
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    • pp.785-794
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    • 2005
  • Modern ship hulls of large oil carriers and container carrers have become more flexible with scantling optimization and increase in ship length. On the other hand. as the demand for power has increased with the ship size. shaft diameters have become larger and stiffer. Consequently. the alignment of the propulsion system has become more sensitive to hull girder deflections. resulting in difficulties in analyzing the alignment and conducting the alignment procedure. Accordingly. the frequency of shaft alignment related bearing damages has increased significantly in recent years. The alignment related damages are mostly attributed to inadequate analyses. changes in the design of the vessel. shipyards' practices in conducting the alignment. and a lack of well defined analytical criteria. The hull deflections should be considered at the design stage to minimize the bearing damage caused by hull deflection. Hull deflections can be estimated by analytical approach and reverse calculation using the measured data. The hull girder deflection analysis using the reverse calculation will be introduced in this paper.

Measurement Technique of Membrane Fouling in Processes Utilizing Ion-Conducting Polymer Membranes (이온전도성 고분자막 활용 공정에서의 막 오염 현상 측정 기술)

  • Han, Soo-Jin;Park, Jin-Soo
    • Membrane Journal
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    • v.27 no.5
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    • pp.434-440
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    • 2017
  • Electrical impedance spectroscopy is used to detect membrane fouling in-situ in reverse electrodialysis. The impedance data for the AMX membrane being fouled in the reverse electrodialysis are plotted and analyzed by Nyquist and admittance method. The meaningful graphical analyses for the fouling phenomena could be done by both Nyquist and admittance method. In addition, the unstable initial fouling stage was identified by the admittance data with high standard deviation, and the structural change of the fouling layer formed at the surface of anion-exchange membranes with the operation time of reverse electrodialysis was also detected.

Design Consideration for Structure of 2500-4500V RC-GCT

  • Kim E. D.;Kim S. C.;Zhang C. L.;Kim N. K.;Bai J. B.;Li J. H.;Lu J. Q.
    • Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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    • 2001.10a
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    • pp.36-38
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    • 2001
  • A basic structure of 2500V-4500V reverse-conducting GCT (RC-GCT) is given in this paper. The punch-through type (PT) is adopted for narrow N-base with high resistivity so that the fast turn-off and low on-state voltage can be achieved. The photo mask design was made upon the both turn-off performance and solution of separation between GCT and integrated freewheeling diode (FWD) part. The turn-on and turn-off characteristics for reserve-conducting gate commutated thyristors (RC-GCTs) were investigated by ISE simulation. Additionally, the local carrier lifetime control by proton irradiation was adopted so as not only to obtain the reduction of turn-off losses of GCT but also to reach a soft reverse recovering characteristics of FWD

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Pruning for Robustness by Suppressing High Magnitude and Increasing Sparsity of Weights

  • Cho, Incheon;Ali, Muhammad Salman;Bae, Sung-Ho
    • Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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    • v.26 no.7
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    • pp.862-867
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    • 2021
  • Although Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have shown remarkable performance in various artificial intelligence fields, it is well known that DNNs are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Since adversarial attacks are implemented by adding perturbations onto benign examples, increasing the sparsity of DNNs minimizes the propagation of errors to high-level layers. In this paper, unlike the traditional pruning scheme removing low magnitude weights, we eliminate high magnitude weights that are usually considered high absolute values, named 'reverse pruning' to ensure robustness. By conducting both theoretical and experimental analyses, we observe that reverse pruning ensures the robustness of DNNs. Experimental results show that our reverse pruning outperforms previous work with 29.01% in Top-1 accuracy on perturbed CIFAR-10. However, reverse pruning does not guarantee benign samples. To relax this problem, we further conducted experiments by adding a regularization term for the high magnitude weights. With adding the regularization term, we also applied conventional pruning to ensure the robustness of DNNs.

A Study on Optimal Laser Scanning method for Reverse Engineering at Interior Remodeling Project (리모델링 프로젝트의 역설계 적용을 위한 최적 3차원 레이저 스캐닝 정보 획득 방안에 관한 연구 - 실내 리모델링을 대상으로 -)

  • Lee, Sangseol;Kwon, Soonwook
    • Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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    • v.15 no.3
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    • pp.3-11
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    • 2014
  • Recently, remodeling construction project has been prevalently conducted in major city areas in Korea. However, remodeling construction project has a difficulty in conducting a construction because of non-existing drawing or lack of drawing information. To solve these problems, modeling techniques by using reverse engineering have been widely studied in other industries such as aerospace and automobile industry. But reverse engineering techniques have not been used in remodeling construction projects because those technology haven't supplied less accuracy during required time for surveying. So, this study suggests optimal method of acquiring accurate 3D laser scanner information for reverse engineering at interior remodeling project.

A Reverse Simulation for Developing Defense Systems based on Simulation Models (시뮬레이션 모델기반 국방체계 설계를 위한 역방향 시뮬레이션)

  • Choi, Seon Han;Kim, Tag Gon;Jin, Ki Byung;Park, Kyung Tae;Shin, Dong Cho
    • Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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    • v.29 no.3
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    • pp.27-40
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    • 2020
  • When analyzing the effectiveness of a defense system in a virtual battlefield with a simulation model is referred to as forward simulation, reverse simulation is required to design a good defense system with high effectiveness. That is, using the simulation model, it is necessary to find the engineering factors, measures of performance, and operational tactics that are demanded to achieve high effectiveness of the system. However, the efficiency of reverse simulation is still a concern since many replications of forward simulation are required for conducting reverse simulation. In this paper, we introduce various efficient algorithms to reduce the number of replications and a reverse simulation tool for utilizing these algorithms easily. The tool allows practitioners to easily and efficiently conduct reverse simulation for design a good defense system based on simulation models. This is demonstrated with the case studies on the design of warship's defense system and the design of military network system.

Process and Structure Design for High Power Reverse-Conducting Gate Commutated Thyristors (RC- GCTs) (고전압 역도통 Gate Commutated Thyristor (RC-GCT) 소자의 공정 및 구조 설계)

  • Kim, Sang-Cheol;Kim, Eun-Dong;Zhang, Chang-Li;Kim, Nam-Kyun;Baek, Do-Hyun
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 2001.07a
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    • pp.1096-1099
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    • 2001
  • The basic design structure of RC-GCTs (Reserve-Conducting Gate-Commutated Thyristors) is firstly given in this paper. The bulk of wafer is punch-through (PT) type with high resistivity and narrow N-base width. The photo-mask was designed upon the turn-off characteristics of GCT and solution of separation between GCT and diode part. The center part of Si wafer is free-wheeling diode (FWD) and outer is GCT part which has 240 fingers totally. The switching performance of GCT was investigated by Dessis of ISE. The basic manufacture process of 2500V-4500V RC-GCTs was given in this work. Additionally, the local carrier lifetime control by 5Mev proton irradiation was adopted so as to not only to have the softness of reverse recovering for FWD but for reduction of turn-off losses of GCT as well.

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