Limits and opportunities for distributed inductors in high-current, high-frequency applications

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2710-2721

  Collins, Christina ^a   Duffy, Maeve ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

High frequency issues; planar inductor design; voltage regulator module (VRM)

Indexed keywords

COMPONENT DESIGN; CORE MATERIAL; DISTRIBUTED SOLUTIONS; FERRITE CORES; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; HIGH-CURRENT; HIGH-FREQUENCY APPLICATIONS; LARGE CURRENT; LIGHT-LOAD EFFICIENCY; LOAD CONDITION; LOSS CHARACTERISTICS; LUMPED INDUCTORS; OPERATING FREQUENCY; PARALLEL INDUCTORS; PLANAR INDUCTOR DESIGN; SIZE REDUCTIONS; VOLTAGE REGULATOR MODULE; VOLTAGE REGULATOR MODULE (VRM);

COREMAKING; ELECTRIC INDUCTORS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FERRITES; VOLTAGE CONTROL; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

DESIGN;

EID: 79951641395     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2010.2047117     Document Type: Article

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