Fabrication and analysis of high-performance integrated solenoid inductor with magnetic core

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 44, Issue 11 PART 2, 2008, Pages 4089-4095

  Lee, Dok Won ^a   Hwang, Kyu Pyung ^b   Wang, Shan X ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Amorphous magnetic film; Magnetic losses; Permeability; Power delivery applications; Thin film inductor

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION; FABRICATION; INDUCTANCE; MAGNETIC CORES; MAGNETIC DEVICES; MAGNETIC LEAKAGE; MAGNETISM; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; SOLENOIDS;

AIR CORE INDUCTORS; AMORPHOUS MAGNETIC FILMS; DEVICE PROPERTIES; INDUCTANCE DENSITIES; MAGNETIC INDUCTORS; POWER DELIVERY; SOLENOID INDUCTORS; THIN FILM INDUCTORS;

ELECTRIC INDUCTORS;

EID: 70350578157     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2008.2003398     Document Type: Article

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