Design of ultrathin LTCC coupled inductors for compact dc/dc converters

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2528-2541

  Wang, Laili ^a   Pei, Yunqing ^a   Yang, Xu ^a   Wang, Zhaoan ^a  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

3 D integration; Coupled inductors; high power density; low temperature cofired ceramic (LTCC); magnetic substrates

Indexed keywords

3-D INTEGRATION; COUPLED INDUCTOR; HIGH POWER DENSITY; LOW-TEMPERATURE CO-FIRED CERAMICS; MAGNETIC SUBSTRATE;

CERAMIC MATERIALS; DC-DC CONVERTERS; ELECTRIC INDUCTORS; ELECTRIC WINDINGS; INDUCTANCE; MAGNETIC LEAKAGE; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WINDING;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 80053233184     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2011.2109043     Document Type: Article

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