{"id":107233,"date":"2006-11-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-13T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/175.125.95.178\/press\/7233\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T03:18:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T18:18:58","slug":"7233","status":"publish","type":"press-post","link":"http:\/\/ee.presscat.kr\/en\/presses\/7233\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Prize to Sungwook Choi and Gold Prize to Heeseok Han at Fairchild Korea Graduate Student Paper Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/article\/pdp-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Sungwook Choi and Heeseok Han, both in doctorate course at KAIST Department of Electrical Engineering, won best prize and gold prize respectively at the 1st Fairchild Korea Graduate Student Paper Contest.<br \/>The title of Choi\u2019s paper is \u2018Cost Effective Multi-Level Single Sustaining Driver for Plasma Display Panel with Dual Energy Recovery Path\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>And the title of Han\u2019s paper is \u2018Digital Control IC for Electronic Ballast using Mixed Mode Excitation\u2019.<br \/>Choi\u2019s paper proposes a new driver that can avoid the problems of IGBT, a power switch used at PDP driving circuit, gaining attention as next-generation display, for cost-reduction. Choi showed his feeling of pleasure by saying, \u201cI\u2019m very pleased that my paper can contribute to PDP popularization and development of power switch for PDP through cost-reduction. I\u2019d like to acknowledge Professor Kunwoo Moon, who has instructed me with persistence and interest at all times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, total 56 papers from 23 universities are applied for the contest, and total 11 papers were awarded after two rounds of examination in terms of novelty, creativeness, technical difficulties, etc. Awardees will be exempted from documentation test and are eligible for additive points when they hope to join Fairchild Korea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>553<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-107233","press-post","type-press-post","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ee.presscat.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press-post\/107233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ee.presscat.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press-post"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ee.presscat.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-post"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ee.presscat.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}