• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.298-305
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• 2012

This paper proposes a soft switching boost converter with an auxiliary resonant circuit. The auxiliary resonant circuit is added to a general boost converter and that is composed of one switch, one diode, one inductor and two capacitors. The resonant network helps the main switch to operate with a zero voltage switching(ZVS) and auxiliary switch also operates under the zero voltage and zero current conditions. The soft switching range is extended by the auxiliary switch and it is possible to control the proposed converter with a pulse width modulation(PWM). The ZVS and ZCS techniques make switching losses decreased and efficiency of the system improved. A theoretical analysis is verified through the simulation and experiment.

• 조명전기설비학회논문지
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• 제16권5호
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• pp.7-13
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• 2002

고효율 고전력 밀도를 제공하는 공진형 컨버터에 있어서 스위치에 걸리는 전압 스트레스는 입력전압의 4∼5배 정도여서, 높은 정격의 소자를 필요로 하기 때문에 전도손실을 증가시킨다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위해 제안했던 교번으로 동작하는 포워드 다중공진형 컨버터에 적용한 회로 형태를 다른 컨버터에 적용한 예를 제시하였다. 그리고 제안한 AT포워드 다중공진형 컨버터의 루프 이득 특성을 알아보기 위해 HP4194A 네트워크 해석기를 이용해 실험적으로 측정한 결과에 대해 고찰하였다.

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 1998년도 Proceedings ICPE 98 1998 International Conference on Power Electronics
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• pp.74-78
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• 1998

The shortcomings of zero-voltage-transition PWM converter is discussed and a new family of topologies of zero-voltage-transition PWM converter with soft-switched auxiliary switch is introduced. The experiments on a 290W boost converter and a 100W forward converter are carried out to prove the circuit. The efficiency increment of the new circuits are 2-5% comparing to hard switching circuits, and the switching noise is also greatly reduced.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.385-391
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• 2020

In this paper, a new passive lossless snubber circuit with energy transfer capability is proposed. The proposed lossless snubber circuit provides Zero-Current Switching (ZCS) condition for turn-on instants and Zero-Voltage Switching (ZVS) condition for turn-off instants. In addition, its diodes operate under soft switching condition. Therefore, no significant switching losses occur in the converter. Since the energy of the snubber circuit is transferred to the output, there are no significant conduction losses. The proposed snubber circuit can be applied on isolated and non-isolated converters. To verify the operation of the snubber circuit, a boost converter using the proposed snubber is implemented at 70W. Also, the measured conducted Efficiency Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) of the proposed boost converter and conventional ones are presented which show the effects of proposed snubber on EMI reduction. The experimental results confirm the presented theoretical analysis.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제24권5호
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• pp.372-378
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• 2019

This study proposes a new zero-current-zero-voltage-transition (ZCZVT) boost-flyback converter using a soft switching auxiliary circuit. The proposed converter integrates the boost and flyback converters to increase the voltage with a low duty ratio. The main and auxiliary switches turn the ZCZVT conditions on and off. Thus, the proposed converter has high efficiency. The voltage gain at the steady state is derived, and the inductor volt-second balance and the design guidelines are presented. Finally, the performance of the proposed converter is validated by experimental results from a 200 W, 30 V DC input, 400 V DC output, and 200 kHz boost-flyback converter prototype.

• 대한전기학회논문지:전기기기및에너지변환시스템부문B
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• 제48권6호
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• pp.342-348
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• 1999

A new welding machine which adopts zero voltage and zero current switching(ZVZCS) full bridge(FB) DC-DC converter is proposed. The proposed ZVZCS FB DC-DC converter uses auxiliary transformer to obtain ZCS for leading leg. It has capability of controlling load current even in short circuit condition and is suitable for arc welding machines. The power rating of the auxiliary transformer is about one 5th to one 10th of the main transformer. Experimental results for 10KW prototype are shown to verify the principle of operation.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.14-21
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 출력 전압의 리플을 이용하여 지상 레그(lagging leg)의 스위치들의 영전류 스위칭(ZCS)을 수행하는 두 개의 트랜스포머를 가지는 위상천이 풀-브릿지 컨버터를 제안하다. 제안된 컨버터는 진상 레그(leading leg)의 스위치들은 영전압 스위칭(ZVS)을 수행하고, 지상 레그의 스위치들은 출력 전압-더블러(Voltage-Doubler)의 전압 리플차를 이용해 출력 다이오드의 전류 전환(commutation)이 빠르게 이루어지도록 하여서 중부하에는 영전류 스위칭을, 경부하에서는 영전압 스위칭을 가능하게 한다. 또한 출력측의 전압 리플차를 이용하기 때문의 기존의 1차측 부스트 캐패시터를 이용하는 컨버터에 비해 턴비를 이용하여 보다 빠른 전류 전환을 수행할 수 있는 장점을 가진다. 따라서 별도의 추가적인 소자없이 모든 스위치의 소프트스위칭이 가능하도록 하고, 지상 레그의 영전류 스위칭을 통해서 환류구간의 순환전류도 없애줌으로써 높은 효율을 얻을 수 있다. 모드 해석과 실험을 통하여 제안 컨버터의 성능을 검증한다.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1996년도 추계학술대회 논문집 학회본부
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• pp.339-342
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• 1996

Driving the electrodeless fluorescent lamp, the high ac voltage with high frequency is required. The linear power amplifier has been widely used as a driving circuit of electrodeless fluorescent lamp. However, the low efficiency of the power amplifier causes the driving circuit to be replaced by a PWM switching inverter. In order to use a PWM switching inverter as the driving circuit of an electrodeless fluorescent lamp, the high switching frequency is required. But due to the switching loss at switches of the inverter, the limitation of high switching frequency appears in the inverter. One solution to this limitation is to reduce the switching loss by using the zero voltage switching technique. In this paper, zero voltage switching resonant inverter for driving an electrodeless fluorescent lamp is discussed. The results of analysis about the inverter are presented and the equations for design are established. And the validity of the analyzed results are verified through the experiment.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.846-857
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• 2019

Voltage step-down converters are very popular in distributed power systems, voltage regular modules, electric vehicles, etc. However, a high step-down voltage ratio is required in many applications to prevent the traditional buck converter from operating at extreme duty cycles. In this paper, a series capacitor interleaved buck converter with a soft switching technique is proposed. The DC voltage ratio of the proposed converter is half that of the traditional buck converter and the voltage stress across the one main switch and the diodes is reduced. Moreover, by paralleling the series connected auxiliary switch and the auxiliary inductor with the main inductor, zero voltage transition (ZVT) of the main switches can be obtained without increasing the voltage or current stress of the main power switches. In addition, zero current turned-on and zero current switching (ZCS) of the auxiliary switches can be achieved. Furthermore, owing to the presence of the auxiliary inductor, the turned-off rate of the output diodes can be limited and the reverse-recovery switching losses of the diodes can be reduced. Thus, the efficiency of the proposed converter can be improved. The DC voltage gain ratio, soft switching conditions and a design guideline for the critical parameters are given in this paper. A loss analysis of the proposed converter is shown to demonstrate its advantages over traditional converter topologies. Finally, experimental results obtained from a 100V/10V prototype are presented to verify the analysis of the proposed converter.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2003년도 춘계학술대회 논문집 전기기기 및 에너지변환시스템부문
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• pp.276-280
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• 2003

This paper presents a zero voltage and zero current switching (ZVZCS) interleaving two-transistor forward converter for high input voltage and high power application. A phase shift has a disadvantage that a circulating current and RMS current stress, conduction losses of transformer and switching devices increases. Due to this circulating current and RMS current stress, conduction losses of transformer and switching devices increases. To alleviate these problems, we propose an improved interleaving two-transistor forward Zero Voltage and Zero Current Switching (ZVZCS) dc/dc converter using a tapped inductor a snubber capacitor and two snubber diodes attached at the secondary side of transformer. The proposed ZVZCS converter is verified on a 1.8kW, 5kHz experimental prototype.