• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.39 no.6
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• pp.71-78
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• 2002

A method of soft switching in the half bridge converter using a small saturable core is presented. For the soft switching, a small dead time of both switch off is made in a pair of MOSFET switch. The saturable core is of rectangular magnetization characteristics and the core flux swings from the minus to the plus saturation during ON time of the switch. The soft switching is realized in dead time by a resonance between the saturating inductance of the core and the stray capacitance of MOSFET. As an extension of this concept, instead of the saturable core, we propose a new soft switching circuit using a linear inductance and two switches, which is especially suitable for regulating the output and also for high frequency switching. A theoretical principle of soft switching presented here was confirmed by experiments on a half bridge converter of 1.25 KW.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Applied Superconductivity and Cryogenics Conference
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• 2000.02a
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• pp.154-157
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• 2000

Superconducting tape easily can applied to distribution of electricity. It designs basic model of Saturable Reactor type Fault Current Limiter which used superconducting tape, and observes a specific character by means of simulation. Saturable Reactor type Fault Current Limiter is not influenced by saturation of Magnet core appeared in Induction Fault Current Limiter, because it exploit saturation of Iron core. But, it is possible that superconducting tape quenched when AC current flow to superconducting tape which biased DC voltage.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2012.07a
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• pp.97-98
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• 2012

본 논문은 코어의 다양한 재질, 단면적으로 인한 인덕터의 특성변화를 시뮬레이션 하기 위해 PSIM의 Saturable Core를 이용하여 인덕터 구성을 한다. 특히 전기자동차의 LDC (Low-voltage DC-DC Converter)용 인덕터의 Test-Bed를 구성하고, 인덕터 설계 시 코어의 변화에 따른 인덕터 특성의 변화를 시뮬레이션을 통해 구현한다. 또한 설계된 인덕터를 시뮬레이션에 구현하여 비 이상적인 특성을 가지는 인덕터를 구현하고, 이를 통해 시뮬레이션을 통한 인덕터 검증의 필요성을 제시한다.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.117-129
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• 2013

We briefly review the recent progress in passively mode-locked fiber lasers (PMLFLs) based on semiconductor saturable absorber mirrors (SESAMs) and discuss the detailed characterization of a SESAM-based, passively mode-locked erbium-doped fiber (EDF) laser operating in the 1.5-${\mu}m$ spectral range for various configurations. A simple and compact design of the laser cavity enables the PMLFL to generate either femtosecond or wavelength-tunable picosecond pulses with high stability as the intra-cavity filtering method is altered. All the cavities investigated in our experiments present self-starting, continuous-wave mode-locking with no Q-switching instabilities. The excellent stability of the source eventually enables the wavelength-tunable PMLFL to be used as a master oscillator for a power-amplifier source based on a large-core EDF, generating picosecond pulses of >10-kW peak power and >100-nJ pulse energy.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers C
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• v.50 no.4
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• pp.197-203
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• 2001

Recently, the construction of gas insulated substation(GIS)s has been increased in Korea. But, the whole quantity of the VTs which were used in GIS has been imported. Under the circumstance that $SF_6$ gas power apparatus are being developed up to 800kV rating in Korea, the development of EＨＶ　$SF_6$ gas VT is essential for localizing the power apparatus. As for EHV VT, destructive ferroresonance can be generated due to the combination of capacitiances between poles of circuit breaker, ground capacitance of bus and nonlinear excitation property of VT core. But the theoretical analysis about ferroresonance has not been fully achieved in Korea. Therefore, in this paper the authors would like to contribute for localizing EHV $SF_6$ gas VT by developing the diagram of ferroresonance zone according to the parameters of the circuit and the saturable reactor.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics S
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• v.34S no.1
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• pp.145-153
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• 1997

This paper proposes a constant frequency controlled forward zero voltage switching multi resonant converter (ZVS-MRC) which operates with a fixed duty ratio. The proposed converter is obtained from a conventional forward ZVS-MRC by placing a saturable core in parallel with the secondary side of the transformer. Experimental results are presented for a proposed converter which operates at 1.5MHz switching frequency with an output power of 50W (5V/10A). The merits of the proposed converter include ; 1) reduced voltage stress to the main switch compared with the conventional counterpart, 2) ease on designing the magnetic components including EMI and output filter, and 3) simple control scheme.

• Journal of international Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.78-82
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• 2014

Power Transformers with more than one secondary winding are not uncommon in industrial applications. But new classes of applications where very large number of independent secondaries are used are becoming popular in controlled converters for medium and high voltage applications. Cascade H-bridge medium voltage drives and Pulse Step Modulation (PSM) based high voltage power supplies are such applications. Regulated high voltage power supplies (Fig. 1) with 35-100 kV, 5-10 MW output range with very fast dynamics (${\mu}S$ order) uses such transformers. Such power supplies are widely used in fusion research. Here series connection of isolated voltage sources with conventional switching semiconductor devices is achieved by large number of separate transformers or by single unit of multi-secondary transformer. Naturally, a transformer having numbers of secondary windings (~40) on single core is the preferred solution due to space and cost considerations. For design and simulation analysis of such a power supply, the model of a multi-secondary transformer poses special problem to any circuit analysis software as many simulation softwares provide transformer models with limited number (3-6) of secondary windings. Multi-Secondary transformer models with 3 different schemes are available. A comparison of test results from a practical Multi-secondary transformer with a simulation model using magnetic component is found to describe the behavior closer to observed test results. Earlier models assumed magnetising inductance in a linear loss less core model although in actual it is saturable core made-up of CRGO steel laminations. This article discusses a more detailed representation of flux coupled magnetic model with saturable core properties to simulate actual transformers very close to its observed parameters in test and actual usage.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2013.07a
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• pp.311-312
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 자성체의 직류중첩 (DC-Bias)특성이 영향을 미치는 공진형 컨버터의 효율을 계산하기 위한 시뮬레이션을 구성한다. 이를 위해 PSIM의 saturable core를 이용하여 core coefficient를 실제 설계 사양과 동일하게 적용 및 모델링한다. 시뮬레이션 결과를 통해, 자성체에 흐르는 전류의 크기에 따라 변화하는 투자율이 공진형 컨버터의 동작 및 효율에 미치는 영향을 분석한다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics B
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• v.33B no.10
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• pp.139-147
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• 1996

In this study a two-stage fast pulse generaor using magnetic switches is proposed. The scheme consist of a switch, an inductor and two pairs of capacitor and saturable inductors, a linear transformer. The basic principle and the operation are described using a set of given parameters. The main issue of the magnetic pulse genration scheme is the system efficiency. This study focuses on the system efficiency improvement using magnetic switches. The voltage compression ratio, energy transfer with respect to core area are investigated. The output voltage and transferred energy as a function of input voltage are also included. Also, an analysis and experiments are performed to verify the porposed topology by implementing a 10[J] class experimental circuit. The efficiency of the transferred energy a tload side is 82%.