Optimal air-gap design in high-frequency foil windings

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 942-949

  Kutkut, Nasser H ^a   Divan, Deepak M ^b  

^a Power Designers LLC   (United States)

^b Softswitching Technologies   (United States)

Author keywords

Air gap design; Foil windings; High frequency ac losses; Skin and proximity effects

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC LOSSES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MAGNETIC CORES; SKIN EFFECT;

AIR-GAP DESIGN; HIGH-FREQUENCY FOIL WINDINGS; PROXIMITY EFFECT;

ELECTRIC WINDINGS;

EID: 0032165795     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/63.712317     Document Type: Article

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