A high-field high-frequency permeance meter for thin-film materials

PESC Record - IEEE Annual Power Electronics Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 4044-4050

  Mukadam, Hozefa ^a   Sullivan, Charles R ^a   Prabhakaran, Satish ^b  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^b GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARITY; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; COREMAKING; LIQUIDS; MAGNETIC CIRCUITS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC LEAKAGE; METRIC SYSTEM; POWER ELECTRONICS;

APPLIED FIELDS; COMPLEX PERMEABILITY; CORE MATERIALS; FREQUENCY RANGING; HIGH FIELDS; HIGH FREQUENCIES; HIGH MAGNETIC FIELDS; HIGH-FREQUENCY POWER; THIN-FILM MATERIALS;

THIN FILM DEVICES;

EID: 52349083307     PISSN: 02759306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PESC.2008.4592586     Document Type: Conference Paper

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