• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.263-269
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• 2013

The flyback converter has been applied widely in isolated DC/DC power converters because this converters employ a single MOSFET switch. The leakage inductance should be minimized for high efficiency of flyback converter. but in reality, it is very difficult. Namely, The Snubber circuit is essential to recover the leakage inductance stored energy when the switch is turn off. Flyback Converter typically operates in DCM mode and when switch is turn off in hard switching, this hard switching action results in a high power losses and switching stresses. In order to overcome these problems, a novel soft switching flyback converter using resonant snubber circuit is proposed in this paper. The resonant snubber circuit is composed of the transformer leakage inductance and a capacitor. To verify and confirm the proposed resonant snubber circuit, PSIM simulation and hardware prototype are implemented. Simulation and Experimental results indicate that the proposed resonant snubber circuit is effective.

• 대한전기학회논문지:전기기기및에너지변환시스템부문B
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• 제53권9호
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• pp.576-583
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• 2004

This paper presents a buck circuit topology of high-frequency with a single switching device. It solved the problem which arised from hard-switching in high-frequency using a resonant snubber and operating under the principle of ZCS turn-on and ZVS turn-off commutation schemes. In the existing circuit, it has the voltage stress that is almost twice of input voltage in a free-wheeling diode. In the proposed circuit, it has the voltage stress that is lower than input voltage with modifing a location of free -wheeling diode. In this paper, it expained the circuit operation of each mode and analyzed feedback-loop stabilization. Also it confirmed the waveform of each mode with simulation result. The experiment result verified the simulation waveform and compared the voltage stress of a free -wheeling diode in the exsiting circuit with the voltage stress of that in the proposed circuit. Moreover, it compares and analyzes the proposed circuit's efficiency with the hard-switching circuit's efficiency according to the change of load current.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1998년도 하계학술대회 논문집 F
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• pp.2145-2147
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• 1998

This paper presents a Class-D type switched mode audio power amplifier employing ZVT(Zero-Voltage-Transition) soft switching technique. In order to obtain a wide bandwidth and lower distortion for an audio amplifier a high switching frequency is essential. The ZVT switching scheme enables a high frequency switching without sacrificing the efficiency much as in a hard switching. A prototype amplifier is built to demonstrate the feasibility of this technique for the audio power amplifier.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제16권5호
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• pp.477-483
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• 2011

일반적인 DC/DC 전력변환기의 스위칭 방식은 하드 스위칭 방식과 공진을 이용한 소프트 스위칭 방식으로 분류할 수 있으며, 하드 스위칭 방식은 스위치의 턴 온/오프시 스위칭 소자에 생기는 전력손실이 커서 효율 면에서 불리하며, 공진형 소프트 스위칭 방식은 별도의 리액터와 커패시터를 추가함으로서 시스템의 사이즈와 비용이 증가하는 단점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 단점을 극복하기 위해 새로운 스위칭 방식의 소프트 스위칭 방식의 Full-bridge 전력변환기의 구조를 제안하였으며, 제안된 소프트 스위칭 방식은 앞단의 벅 컨버터의 다이오드 전류시 영전압이 되는 구간에서 Full-Bridge 컨버터의 스위치를 교변 함으로써 리액터와 커패시터의 추가없이 소프트 스위칭을 이루어냄으로서 시스템의 효율과 신뢰성을 향상시킨다. 또한 제안된 절연형 소프트 Full-bridge DC/DC 컨버터의 타당성을 검증하기 위해 Psim을 이용한 시뮬레이션과 500[W]급 DC/DC 컨버터를 제작하여 DC/DC 컨버터의 효율이 우수함을 확인하였다.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.418-428
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• 2012

It is very important to improve the overall efficiency of systems with a source of power that has low-voltage high-current terminal characteristics such as fuel cells. A resonant converter is required for high efficiency systems. However, the peak value of the switches current is large in a resonant converter. This peak current requires a large number of switches and results in system failures. In this paper, an analysis and experiments of a resonant isolation push-pull converter are performed. A switching loss analysis is performed in order to compare losses between a resonant push pull converter and a hard switching push-pull converter. Specially, the conduction loss is studied based on the ratio between the resonant frequency and the switching frequency. In addition, a method for improving the efficiency is implemented with conventional HF insolation converters.

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 1998년도 전력전자학술대회 논문집
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• pp.265-268
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• 1998

This paper presents a soft-switching average current control PWM high power factor boost converter. Conventional boost ZVT-PWM converter has a disadvantage of hard-switching for auxiliary switch at turn-off. A soft switched auxiliary switch is proposed to achieve a high performance ZVT-PWM boost rectifier. The simulation and experimental results show that soft switching operation can be maintained for wide line and load range, which in turn improves the converter performance in terms of efficiency, switching noise and circuit reliability.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제9권6호
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• pp.560-567
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• 2004

이 논문에서는 Planar transformer를 적용한 30W급 포워드 컨버터에 대한 설계와 실험결과를 소개한다. 컨버터의 전체적인 크기와 체적은 일반적인 권선형 변압기 대신 Planar transformer를 적용함으로써 감소하였고 크기와 체적의 감소로 포워드 컨버터의 전력밀도가 증가하였다. 또한, Single Switch 포워드 컨버터 와 Active Clamp ZVS 포워드 컨버터를 비교연구 하였다.

• KIEE International Transaction on Electrical Machinery and Energy Conversion Systems
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• 제2B권3호
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• pp.115-124
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• 2002

This paper presents an active auxiliary edge-resonant DC link snubber with a ringing surge damper and a three-phase voltage source type zero voltage soft-switching inverter with the resonat snubber treated here for the AC servo motor driver applications. The operation of the active auxiliary edge-resonant DC link snubber circuit with PWM voltage is described, together with the practical design method to select its circuit parameters. The three-phase voltage source type soft-switching inverter with a single edge-resonant DC link snubber treated here is evaluated and discussed for the small-scale permanent magnet (PM) type-AC servo motor driver from an experimental point of view. In addition to these, the AC motor stator current and its motor speed response for the proposed three-phase soft-switching inverter employing Intelligent Power Module(IPM) based on IGBTS are compared with those of the conventional three-phase hard-switching inverter using IPM. The practical effectiveness of the three-phase soft-switching inverter-fed permanent magnet type AC motor speed tracking servo driver is proven on the basis of the common mode current in a novel type three-phase soft-switching inverter-fed AC motor side and the conductive noise on the mains terminal interface voltage as compared with those of the conventional three-phase hard-switching inverter-fed permanent magnet type AC servo motor driver for the speed tracking applications.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2003년도 춘계학술대회 논문집 전기기기 및 에너지변환시스템부문
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• pp.262-265
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• 2003

In this paper, a new active snubber circuit that overcomes most of the drawbacks of the normal "zero voltage transition pulse width modulation" (ZVT-PWM) converter is proposed to contrive a new family of ZVT- PWM converter. A converter with the proposed snubber circuit can also operate at light load conditions. A design procedure of the proposed active snubber circuit is also presented. Additionally, at full output power in the proposed soft switching converter, the main switch loss is about 27[%] and the total circuit loss is about 36[%] of that in its counterpart hard switching converter, and so the overall efficiency, which is about 91[%] in the hard switching case, increases to about 97[%].

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제19권5호
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• pp.1182-1192
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• 2019

In order to improve the conversion efficiency and mitigate the EMI problem of conventional hard-switching inverters, a new soft-switching DC-AC inverter with a compact structure and a low modulation complexity is proposed in this paper. In the proposed structure, resonant inductors are connected in series for the arm branches, and resonant capacitors are connected in parallel for the neutral point branches. With the help of resonant components, the proposed structure achieves zero-current switching on the arm branches and zero-voltage switching on the neutral point branches. When compared with state-of-art soft-switching topologies, the proposed topology does not need auxiliary switches. Moreover, the commutation algorithm to realize soft-switching can be easily implemented. In this paper, the principle of the resonant operation of the proposed soft-switching converter is presented and its performance is verified through simulation studies. The feasibility of the proposed inverter is evaluated experimentally with a 2.4-kW prototype.