• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.51 no.9
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• pp.41-45
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• 2014

In this paper, a high-efficiency power amplifier is implemented by using a drain bias control circuit operated at low input power for WPT(Wireless Power Transfer). Adaptive bias control circuit was added to high-efficiency class-E amplifier. It was possible to obtain the overall improvement in efficiency by adjusting the drain bias at low input power. The proposed adaptive class-E amplifier is implemented by using the input and output matching network and serial resonant circuit for improvement in efficiency. Drain bias control circuit consists of a directional coupler, power detector, and operational amplifier for adjusting the drain bias according to the input power. The measured results show that output powers of 41.83 dBm were obtained at 13.56 MHz. At this frequency, we have obtained the power added efficiency(PAE) of 85.67 %. It was confirmed increase of PAE of an average of 8 % than the fixed bias from the low input power level of 0 dBm ~ 6 dBm.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.8 no.6
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• pp.1559-1570
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• 2013

The family of ISO/IEEE11073 standards is the basis of the e-health system and provides interoperability for personal health devices. In the early stage of e-health business, it was expected that people would use a health device individually. In this case, a measurement datum was episodically acquired and generally transmitted for one person at a time. Recently, a health device is expected to be used by multiple people, and large amounts of measurement data are gathered in a short time interval. In addition, mobile health devices have become more popular, so that energy efficient measurement data transmission is required, to prolong the use of a device. In IEEE11073 PHD standards, data transmission is classified into three different types: immediate individual transfer, small block transfer, and large block transfer. The large block transfer using PM-store concept provides efficient transmission. However, an existing PM-store has problem when a device is used by multiple people. To address the defined problem, a modified PM-segment that is in compliance with 11073 standards is proposed in this paper. In particular, the proposed PM-segment is designed to minimize the additional complexity of an agent instead of a manager and it is interoperable with the existing manager. The proposed PM-segment shows better performance than the existing PM-segment, in terms of memory requirements and expected queue time. Also, performance comparison among the three transfers is performed in regard to the delay time and communication power consumption points of view.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.48 no.2
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• pp.85-89
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• 2011

In this paper, a novel Class-E power amplifier using metamaterials has been realized with one RF LDMOS diffusion metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistor. The CRLH structure can lead to metamaterial transmission line with the Class-E power amplifier tuning capability. The CRLH TL is achieved by the frequency offset and the nonlinear phase slope of the CRLH TL for the matching network of the power amplifier. Also, the proposed power amplifier has been realized by using the CRLH structure in the output matching network for better efficiency. Operating frequencies are chosen at 13.56 MHz in this work. The measured results show that the output power of 39.83 dBm and the gain of 11.83dB was obtained. At this point, we have obtained the power-added efficiency (PAE) of 73 % at operation frequency.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.29 no.12
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• pp.907-914
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• 2018

Wireless charging has been actively researched and popularized owing to the potential convenience of being able to charge electronic devices without wires for users. However, the receiver on the wireless charging pad is not charged when the center of the receiver is misaligned; thus, the center of the receiver must be adjusted well. This misalignment may greatly reduce the convenience of wireless charging. To overcome this limitation of wireless charging, a coil is designed to improve the positional freedom of the receiver. The positional freedom of the Rx coil is improved when the outer diameter of Tx coil is larger than when Rx and Tx coils are almost the same size. When the Tx coil has a larger outer diameter than that of the Rx coil, the efficiency at the center is somewhat lowered, but the efficiency is improved compared to when the center is out of order. In this paper, a double coil structure having an outer and an inner coil is proposed. The double coil structure further improves the efficiency, compared with one coil with the same outer size. The simulation and measurement results demonstrated that the tendency was consistent, and it was verified that the degree of freedom of the Rx coil is improved by adding the inner coil, while the size of the outer coil was the same. The measurement shows that the transmission efficiency of the conventional Tx coil is 37 %, the larger outer diameter coil is 45 %, and double coil is 47 % when the distance of the Tx/Rx coil is 3 mm, the misalignment is 15 mm and current flowing in the Rx coil is 1 A at an operating frequency of 105 to 210 kHz.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.74-82
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• 2019

The revolution of industry 4.0 is enabling us to build an intelligent connection society called smart cities. The use of renewable energy in particular solar energy is extremely important for modern society due to the growing power demand in smart cities, but its difficult to monitor and manage in each buildings since need to be deploy low energy sensors and information need to be transfer via wireless sensor network (WSN). The Internet of Things (IoT) / low-power wide-area (LPWA) is an emerging WSN technology, to collect and monitor data about environmental and physical electrical / electronics devices conditions in real time. However, providing power to IoT sensor end devices and other public electrical loads such as street lights, etc is an important challenging role because the sensor are usually battery powered and have a limited life time. In this paper, we proposes an efficient solar energy-based power management scheme for smart city based on IoT technology using LoRa wide-area network (LoRaWAN). This approach facilitates to maintain and prevent errors of solar panel based energy systems. The proposed solution maximizing output the power generated from solar panels system to distribute the power to the load and the grid. In this paper, we proved the efficiency of the proposed system with Simulink based system modeling and real-time emulation.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.1-2
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• 2011

온라인 전기자동차에 적용된 무선전력전송 시스템의 자기장 설계 기술은 전송되는 전력의 용량, 효율, 누설자기장 세기 등 전기적인 성능변수들을 결정하는 핵심 기술이다. 최대의 전력용랑과 효율을 만들어내면서 동시에 누설 자기장에 대한 전파법의 규격을 만족시켜야 한다. 이를 위해 자기장의 형상화에 영향을 주는 다양한 설계변수를 찾아내고, 변수들의 최적화에 대한 체계적인 접근이 필요한 시점이다. 본 논문에서는 온라인 전기자동차의 자기장 설계에 영향을 주는 설계변수의 특성과, 성능변수에 미치는 영향을 분석하고, 최적의 성능변수를 만들어 내기 위한 방법을 제시한다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.5-6
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• 2011

자계 공진(Magnetic resonance)을 이용한 무선전력전송을 위해 새로운 형태의 동축형 구조를 가지는 자기 공진 코일(Self-Resonant Coil)을 제안한다. 코일은 헬리컬 코일과 동축형 커패시터로 구성된다. 공진 주파수를 조정하기 위해 동축 구조는 병렬로 연결하고, 코일의 Q-factor를 높이기 위해 리츠 코일을 병렬로 연결하였다. 제안된 자기 공진 코일은 소형으로 제작이 가능하며, 우수한 전력전송특성을 가진다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.7-8
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 자기공진형 무선전력전송 시스템에서 정류 회로부를 포함하여 시스템의 특징을 해석하였다. 비선형소자가 포함된 정류단을 해석하여 등가 저항으로 모델링하는 방법을 제시하고 이를 통해 시스템의 입력 임피던스를 유도하였다. 또한 정류단에 연결된 부하로 전달되는 출력 전류를 계산하여 전체 시스템의 입출력 전력과 전력효율을 쉽게 얻을 수 있었다.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.28 no.5
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• pp.72-82
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• 2013

인구 고령화와 복지증진에 따라 인체 삽입형 의료기기에 대한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있으며, 더 다양한 기능을 제공하는 제품들이 출시되고 있다. 반면, 이러한 다양한 기능의 요구로 인해 인체 삽입형 의료기기의 전력소모가 커지고 있어 일차전지만으로는 충분한 기능을 제공하지 못하거나 한정된 사용시간으로 말미암아 환자들이 삽입형 의료기기의 전원공급만을 위해서 추가적인 비용과 고통을 감수하고 있는 현실이다. 본고에서는 무선 전력 전송 기술을 활용하여 인체 삽입용 의료기기로 전력을 무선으로 전송하고 재충전이 가능한 인체 삽입용 의료기기의 기능과 사용 시간의 확대를 가능하게 하는 무선 충전 전원 모듈 기술의 동향과 전망을 살펴봄으로써 관련 국내 산업계가 기술 전환기를 대비하는데 필요한 기초 정보를 제공하고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2015.07a
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• pp.7-8
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• 2015

2007년 MIT에서의 자기공진 기술 시연 이후 무선전력 시스템 기술에 있어서 많은 부분들이 다수의 연구자들에 의해 연구되고있다. 하지만, 무선전력 시스템의 효율에 큰 영향을 미치는 급집전 코일 및 선로용 케이블에 대한 연구는 매우 미진한 상황이다. 다만, 최근 들어 국내에서는 KAIST와 동원OLEV의 무선충전 전기버스와 철도기술연구원의 무가선 철도, 물류 분야의 무선전력 기술의 실용화가 점진적으로 이루어지기 시작하면서 무선전력 전용의 고주파 대전력 케이블에 대한 연구 필요성이 대두되고 있다. 본 연구에서 대전력 무선 전송 분야의 적용을 위해 100 kHz이하 대역에서의 고주파 전력 케이블 최적화를 위한 단위 집합 도체 특성을 실험적으로 평가하였다.