PCB integrated inductors for low power DC/DC converter

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 937-945

  Ludwig, Matthias ^a   Duffy, Maeve ^b   O'Donnell, Terence ^a   McCloskey, Paul ^a   Ó Mathùna, Seán Cian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Electroplating; Embedded PCB magnetics; Integrated magnetics; Low power conversion; Magnetic design study; Ultra flat inductors

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC WINDINGS; ELECTROPLATING; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INDUCTANCE; MAGNETIC CORES; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; POWER INDUCTORS; POWER INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS;

BUCK CONVERTERS; MAGNETIC PLATES; ULTRA FLAT INDUCTORS;

POWER CONVERTERS;

EID: 0041765066     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2003.813757     Document Type: Article

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