Radial-anisotropy nanogranular thin-film magnetic material for toroidal inductors

Conference Proceedings - IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition - APEC

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 491-497

  Qiu, Jizheng ^a   Sullivan, Charles R ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY ORIENTATION; CIRCUMFERENTIAL DIRECTION; EASY AXIS; HYSTERESIS MEASUREMENTS; IRON COMPONENTS; MAGNETIC FIELD ORIENTATIONS; NANO-GRANULAR MAGNETIC MATERIALS; NANOGRANULARS; OUTSIDE DIAMETER; QUALITY FACTORS; RADIAL ANISOTROPY; RADIAL DIRECTION; RADIAL MAGNETIC FIELD; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY; SUBSTRATE PLANES; TOROIDAL CORES; TOROIDAL GEOMETRY; TOROIDAL INDUCTORS;

EXHIBITIONS; FABRICATION; MAGNETIC CORES; MAGNETIC FIELDS; POWER ELECTRONICS; ZIRCONIUM;

ANISOTROPY;

EID: 84860175540     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APEC.2012.6165865     Document Type: Conference Paper

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