• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.48 no.10
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• pp.33-38
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• 2011

A novel low-power synchronization technique is presented for the local synchronization. Since the proposed technique transmits an enable signal instead of a clock signal which consumes large power, it can considerably reduce the power consumption. The source-synchronization scheme which is widely adopted for the local synchronization is compared with the proposed technique. It is shown that the proposed low-power synchronization technique provides approximately 50% power saving.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.07a
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• pp.904-905
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• 2008

In this paper, a novel 60kV, 300A, 3kHz pulsed power supply based on IGBT stacks is proposed. Proposed scheme consists of series connected 9 power stages to generate maximum 60kV output pulse and 15kW series resonant power inverter to charge DC capacitor voltage. Each power stages are configured as 8 series connected power cells and each power cell generates up to 830VDC, 300A pulses. Finally pulse output voltage is applied using total 72 series connected IGBTs. The synchronization of gating signal is important of series operation of IGBTs. For gating signal synchronization, full bridge inverter and pulse transformer generates on-off signals of IGBT gating and specially designed gate power circuit was used.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.41 no.8
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• pp.841-849
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• 1992

In power system operation, the stability of synchronous machine has been recognized one of the most important things. AESOPS program developed by EPRI in U.S.A. is a frequency domain analysis program in power system stability and it computes the electro-mechanical oscillation mode. This paper presents how to analyze the power system small signal stability problem efficiently by uusing the AESOPS program and analyze the various factors affecting the damping characteristics of these oscillations in KEPCO power system of 1986 with pumped-storage plant. To reduce the computing time and efforts, selecting the poorly-damped oscillation mode and clustering technique have been used. The characteristics of load, the amount of power flow on the transmission line and the gain of exciter have a significant effects on the damping of the system while the governing system has only a minor one. With the Power System Stabilizers, the stability of the power system has been improved.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2005.07c
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• pp.2208-2210
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• 2005

전문적인 지식이 없는 UHF 부분방전 측정장치 사용자를 위해 자동으로 측정된 신호로부터 GIS 내부의 결함을 추론할 수 있는 신경망회로 엔진을 연구하였다. 측정된 방전신호로부터 적절한 변수들을 계산하고 이를 신경망회로를 이용하여 미리 분류한 GIS 결함들 중 가장 유사한 결함을 자동으로 표현하는 기능을 엔진이 가지도록 하였다. 특히 본 엔진은 3상 일괄형 GIS나 GIS의 전압 위상에 동기되지 않은 부분방전 측정시스템에도 방전 원인을 잘 추론함을 실험을 통하여 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2001.11c
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• pp.65-67
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• 2001

PLC (Power Line Communication) is the communication method using the existing power line installed in houses and offices to convert and transmit high frequency communication signal from tens of KHz to tens of MHz, and receive the filtered signal using high frequency filter. The advantage of PLC is that PLC uses the existing power line installed in houses and offices so it does not require separate power line. Easy and convenient access using electric outlets is another advantage of PLC. However, PLC has some disadvantages such as limited transmission power, high load interference and noise, variable signal attenuation, characteristic of impedance selective possibility of frequency property. This study designed the boiler temperature control system by unit using the modem designed on the basis of technology used for PLC modem, and designed remote control system using internet. After conducting experiments with those two systems, it was possible to control stably. By commercializing this product, we can avoid unnecessary heating of separate temperature control unit, and save the cost according1y, and it is possible to control on a remote site using internet in a more convenient way.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.44-51
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• 2016

A commercial $0.25{\mu}m$ GaN process is used to implement 6-18 GHz wideband power amplifier (PA) monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs). GaN HEMTs are advantageous for enhancing RF power due to high breakdown voltages. However, the large-signal models provided by the foundry service cannot guarantee model accuracy up to frequencies close to their maximum oscillation frequency ($F_{max}$). Generally, the optimum output load point of a PA varies severely according to frequency, which creates difficulties in generating watt-level output power through the octave bandwidth. This study overcomes these issues by the development of in-house large-signal models that include a thermal model and by applying distributed L-C output load matching to reactive matched amplifiers. The proposed GaN PAs have successfully accomplished output power over 5 W through the octave bandwidth.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.33 no.5
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• pp.679-688
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• 2011

A new discrete-amplitude pulse width modulation (DAPWM) scheme for a high-efficiency linear power amplifier is proposed. A radio frequency (RF) input signal is divided into an envelope and a phase modulated carrier. The low-frequency envelope is modulated so that it can be represented by a pulse whose area is proportional to its amplitude. The modulated pulse has at least two different pulse amplitude levels in order that the duty ratios of the pulse are kept large for small input. Then, an RF pulse train is generated by mixing the modulated envelope with the phase modulated carrier. The RF pulse train is amplified by a switching-mode power amplifier, and the original RF input signal is restored by a band pass filter. Because duty ratios of the RF pulse train are kept large in spite of a small input envelope, the DAPWM technique can reduce loss from harmonic components. Furthermore, it reduces filtering efforts required to suppress harmonic components. Simulations show that the overall efficiency of the pulsed power amplifier with DAPWM is about 60.3% for a mobile WiMax signal. This is approximately a 73% increase compared to a pulsed power amplifier with PWM.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.162-168
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• 2005

In this paper, a digital current mode control is designed for the power converter applications. The designed digital current mode controller is derived analytically from the continuous time small signal model of the power converters. Due to the small signal model based derivations of the control law, the designed control method can be applicable to boost, buck, and buck-boost converters. It is also proven that the controlled power converter employing the designed digital current mode controller is always stable regardless of an operating conditions. In order to show the usefulness of a designed controller, experiments are carried out using a 16bit DSP micro-processor, TMS320LF2406A.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.91-98
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• 2012

Power Quality (PQ) signal such as sag, swell, harmonics, and impulsive transients are the major issues in the operations of the power electronics based devices and microprocessor based equipments. The effectiveness of wavelet based denoising techniques and recognizing different power quality events with noise has been presented in this paper. The algorithms involved in the noisy PQ recognition system are the wavelet based denoising and the back propagation neural networks. Also, in order to verify the real-time performances of the noisy PQ recognition systems under the noisy environments, SIL(Software In the Loop) and PIL(Processor In the Loop) were carried out, resulting in the excellent recognition performances.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.178-184
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• 2007

The EEG signal in general can be categorized as the Alpha wave, the Beta wave, the Theta wave, and the Delta wave. The alpha wave, showed in stable state, is the dominant wave for a human EEG and the beta wave displays the excited state. The subject of this paper was to recognize the stable state of EEG quantitatively using wavelet transform and power spectrum analysis. We decomposed EEG signal into the alpha wave and the beta wave in the process of wavelet transform, and calculated each power spectrum of EEG signal, using Fast Fourier Transform. And then we calculated the stable state quantitatively by stable state ratio, defined as the power spectrum of the alpha wave over that of the beta wave. The study showed that it took more than 10 minutes to reach the stable state from the normal activity in 69 % of the subjects, 5 -10 minutes in 9%, and less than 5 minutes in 16 %.