Magnetic-core and air-core inductors on silicon: A performance comparison up to 100 MHz

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 4429-4432

  Meere, Ronan ^a   Wang, Ningning ^b   O'Donnell, Terence ^c   Kulkarni, Santosh ^b   Roy, Saibal ^b   O'Mathuna, S Cian ^b  

^a Athletic Rehabilitation Therapy Ireland   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^c ENTERPRISE IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

DC DC power converters; optimization; thin film inductors; wafer scale integration

Indexed keywords

DC-DC CONVERTERS; EFFICIENCY; INDUCTANCE; LAMINATING; MAGNETIC CORES; MAGNETISM; OPTIMIZATION; SILICON WAFERS; WSI CIRCUITS;

AIR CORE INDUCTORS; ANALYTICAL DESIGN; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; INTEGRATED INDUCTORS; MAXIMUM EFFICIENCY; PERFORMANCE COMPARISON; TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGNS; THIN FILM INDUCTORS;

ELECTRIC INDUCTORS;

EID: 80053466006     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2011.2158519     Document Type: Article

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