High-efficiency silicon-embedded coreless coupled inductors for power supply on chip applications

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 4781-4787

  Wu, Rongxiang ^a   Sin, Johnny K O ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

dc dc power converters; inductors; power integrated circuits

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM LAYERS; CONVERTER EFFICIENCY; CONVERTER LOSS; COUPLED INDUCTOR; DC-DC POWER CONVERTER; HIGHER EFFICIENCY; INDUCTOR COILS; ON CHIPS; ON-CHIP INTEGRATION; POWER SUPPLY-ON-CHIP; SI SUBSTRATES; SMALL AREA; SUBSTRATE LAYERS;

DC-DC CONVERTERS; ELECTRIC INDUCTORS; POWER INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84862977400     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2012.2190753     Document Type: Article

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