AC resistance of planar power inductors and the quasidistributed gap technique

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 558-567

  Hu, Jiankun ^b   Sullivan, Charles R ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b AGERE SYSTEMS   (United States)

^c DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Air gaps; Distributed gaps; Eddy currents; Fringing effects; Inductors; Magnetic devices; Power conversion; Proximity effect; Quasidistributed gaps; Skin effect; Voltage regulator modules

Indexed keywords

FRINGING EFFECTS; QUASIDISTRIBUTED GAP TECHNIQUE; VOLTAGE REGULATOR MODULES;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EDDY CURRENTS; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; SKIN EFFECT; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

POWER INDUCTORS;

EID: 0035398459     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/63.931082     Document Type: Article

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