Design of microfabricated inductors

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 709-723

  Daniel, Luca ^a,b   Sullivan, Charles R ^a,b   Sanders, Seth R ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC THIN FILMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTILAYERS; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTORESISTS; POWER CONVERTERS;

MICROFABRICATED INDUCTORS;

POWER INDUCTORS;

EID: 0033153985     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/63.774209     Document Type: Article

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