• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2002년도 하계학술대회 논문집 B
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• pp.1126-1128
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• 2002

In proportion to the development of various cultural contents industry, although the lighting tools with advanced control system are needed, the fields of the lighting tools are not competitive in techniques because they are limited in small businesses and have been lost their markets to foreign companies in the high value added industry. Accordingly, the technique that is better than current lighting tools is needed urgently. So, for the new lighting tools, this paper presents a new dimming method using IGBT(Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor) devices. There are three procedures in this study. For the first, the authors verify superiority of IGBT Dimmer with simulation using EMTDC in former step for development of IGBT dimmer. Secondly, the authors made IGBT dimmer directly with the basis of simulation results. For the last, the efficiency, the Total Harmonic Distortion(THD) current, temperature characteristic, noise characteristic, voltage drop, heat losses between the IGBT dimmer and the Thyristor dimmer that is being used popularly in the industries the stages, and the theaters were tested and compared..

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.283-289
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• 2016

Islanding protection of a grid-connected photovoltaic (PV) inverter is a key function for standards compliance. Unintentional islanding results in safety hazards, reliability, and many other issues. Therefore, many anti-islanding schemes have been examined. However, existing anti-islanding schemes have poor power quality and non-detection zone issues. Moreover, most schemes have problems that deteriorate the performance of islanding detection under parallel operation. Therefore, this paper proposes a novel anti-islanding scheme that has negligible power quality degradation and has no non-detection zone and islanding detection under a parallel operation. Both simulation and experimental results validate the proposed scheme.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.239-246
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 스텝 펄스형의 멀티레벨 인버터에 적용하기 위한 새로운 사인파 변조기법을 제안하고자 한다. 제안된 변조기법은 레벨수의 증가에 무관하게 스위칭 각의 계산이 쉽고, 각각의 스텝에서 이상적인 정현파와 수학적으로 동일한 실효치를 출력하도록 설계되었으며, 높은 출력레벨의 스텝펄스형 멀티레벨 인버터에서 정현파를 근사적으로 추종하는 파형을 생성할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 셀 전압비를 이용하여 출력 레벨을 확장한 3셀 구조의 13레벨 케스케이드 H-브리지형 멀티레벨 인버터에 대하여 제안된 변조기법을 적용하였으며 시뮬레이션 및 실험을 통하여 확인하였다.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.309-315
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• 2010

A fully-differential low-voltage low-power electrocardiogram (ECG) amplifier by using the nonfeedback PMOS pseudo-resistors is proposed. It consists of two operational-transconductance amplifiers (OTA) in series (a preamplifier and a variable-gain amplifier). To make it insensitive to the gate leakage current of the OTA input transistor, the feedback pseudo-resistor of the conventional ECG amplifier is moved to input branch between the OP amp summing node and the DC reference voltage. Also, an OTA circuit with a Gm boosting block without reducing the output resistance (Ro) is proposed to maximize the OTA DC gain. The measurements shows the frequency bandwidth from 7 Hz to 480 Hz, the midband gain programmable from 48.7 dB to 59.5 dB, the total harmonic distortion (THD) less than 1.21% with a full voltage swing, and the power consumption of 233 nW in a 0.13 ${\mu}m$ CMOS process at the supply voltage of 0.7 V.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.1288-1297
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• 2016

This study proposes a single-stage light-emitting diode (LED) tube lamp driver with input-current shaping for T8/T10-type fluorescent lamp replacements. The proposed AC-DC LED driver integrates a dual-boost converter with coupled inductors and a half-bridge series-resonant converter with a bridge rectifier into a single-stage power conversion topology. This paper presents the operational principles and design considerations for one T8-type 18 W-rated LED tube lamp with line input voltages ranging from 100 V rms to 120 V rms. Experimental results for the prototype driver show that the highest power factor (PF = 0.988), lowest input current total harmonic distortion (THD = 7.22%), and highest circuit efficiency (η = 92.42%) are obtained at an input voltage of 120 V. Hence, the proposed driver is feasible for use in energy-efficient indoor lighting applications.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.291-297
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• 2012

Recently, Switching devices become cheaper, depending on the multi-level inverters are considered as the power-conversion systems for high-power and power-quality demanding applications. The multi-level inverters can reduce the THD(Total Harmonic Distortion) as the output which is similar sinusoidal waveform by synthesizing several capacitor DC voltages. However it has some disadvantages such as increased number of components, complex PWM control method. Therefore, this paper is proposed the new multi-level inverter topology using an new H-bridge output stage with a bidirectional auxiliary switch. The proposed topology is the 4-level 3-phase PWM inverter with less switching part than conventional multi-level inverters and reactive power control possible. In order to understand the new multi-level inverter, topology analysis and switching patterns and modes according to the current loop are described in this paper. The proposed multi-level inverter topology is validated through PSIM simulation and the experimental results are provided from a prototype.

• Journal of international Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.79-84
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• 2012

In this paper, a three-phase high-voltage converter (HVC), in which the main structure of each phase is composed of a cascaded PWM rectifier (CPR) and cascaded inverter (CI), is studied. A high-voltage grid is the input of the HVC. In order to ensure proper operation of the HVC, the control method should achieve output voltage sharing (OVS) among the rectifiers in the CPR, OVS among the inverters in the CI, and high power factor. Master-slave direct-current control (MDCC) is used to control the CPR. The ability of the control system to prevent interference is strong when using MDCC. The CI is controlled by three-loop control, which is composed of an outer common-output-voltage loop, inner current loops and voltage sharing loops. Simulation results show low total harmonic distortion (THD) in the HVC input currents and good OVS in both the CPR and CI.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1997년도 추계학술대회 논문집 학회본부
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• pp.634-637
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• 1997

This paper is on the research and development of new SIV(Static Inverter) using IGBT(Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor) semiconductor for a wide range of electric railway applications. For the simplification and higher controllability, the direct PWM control method with 3level inverter topology was adopted. In the new SIV system, the cost as well as bulk and weight was appreciably reduced about 40% lower than those of conventional SIV, the electrical efficiency was increased above 95% and the audible noise level was less than 65dB. In addition, the THD(Total Harmonic Distortion) factor was below 5% and the voltage fluctuation on a transient state was below 10%.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제65권6호
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• pp.987-994
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• 2016

In this paper, we present a comparative analysis of surface-mounted permanent magnet synchronous motors (SPMSM) and interior permanent magnet synchronous motors (IPMSM). First, we use 2D finite element analysis (FEA) to analyze models satisfying the same rated conditions according to the torque-speed curve characteristics, which are determined from the operating conditions. Next, we manufacture an SPMSM and IPMSM having good performances from an electromagnetic perspective based on analysis results, namely the cogging torque, torque ripple, and efficiency. We analyze both of the manufactured machines when they are connected back-to-back and when they are used as a motor and a generator, respectively. The motor is driven by a commercial inverter and the generator is connected to a three-phase resistance load bank. Finally, based on experimental results, which include the total harmonic distortion (THD) of the back electro-motive force (EMF), cogging torque, efficiency, and mass, we determine the motor that is most suitable under requirements.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제16권5호
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• pp.1706-1715
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• 2016

In this paper, a single phase modified switched-diode topology for both symmetrical and asymmetrical cascaded multilevel inverters is presented. It consists of a Modified Switched-Diode Unit (MSDU) and a Twin Source Two Switch Unit (TSTSU) to produce distinct positive voltage levels according to the operating modes. An additional H-bridge synthesizes a voltage waveform, where the voltage levels of either polarity have less Total Harmonic Distortion (THD). Higher-level inverters can be built by cascading MSDUs. A comparative analysis is done with other topologies. The proposed topology results in reductions in the number of power switches, losses, installation area, voltage stress and converter cost. The Nearest Level Control (NLC) technique is employed to generate the gating signals for the power switches. To verify the performance of the proposed structure, simulation results are carried out by a PSIM under both steady state and dynamic conditions. Experimental results are presented to validate the simulation results.