A tunable magnetic inductor

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1585-1590

  Ning, N ^a   Li, X P ^a   Fan, J ^a   Ng, W C ^a   Xu, Y P ^a   Qian, X ^a   Seet, H L ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Inductors; Magnetic films; Magnetoimpedance; Tunable circuits and devices

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; MAGNETIC DEVICES; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC FILMS; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

INDUCTORS; MAGNETIC INDUCTORS; MAGNETOIMPEDANCE; TUNABLE CIRCUITS AND DEVICES;

ELECTRIC INDUCTORS;

EID: 33646426392     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2006.870651     Document Type: Article

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