Fabrication of planar power inductor for embedded passives in LSI package for hundreds megahertz switching DC-DC buck converter

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 3204-3207

  Ito, Hideyuki ^a   Takeuchi, Asako ^b   Okazaki, Shinya ^a   Kobayashi, Hiroki ^a   Sugawa, Yuichiro ^a   Takeshima, Akihiro ^a   Sonehara, Makoto ^a   Matsushita, Nobuhiro ^b   Sato, Toshiro ^a  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

dc dc converter; embedded passives; Fe based amorphous polyimide composite core; LSI package; Planar power inductor; Zn ferrite thick film core

Indexed keywords

FABRICATION; FERRITE; LSI CIRCUITS; MAGNETIC CORES; MAGNETISM; POWER INDUCTORS; THICK FILMS;

COMPOSITE CORE; COMPOSITE MAGNETIC CORE; DC-DC BUCK CONVERTER; EMBEDDED PASSIVES; FABRICATED INDUCTOR; LOW VOLTAGE DC-DC CONVERTERS; LSI PACKAGE; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT;

DC-DC CONVERTERS;

EID: 80053552841     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2011.2147288     Document Type: Article

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