Review of integrated magnetics for Power Supply on Chip (PwrSoC)

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 4799-4816

  Mathúna, Cian Ó ^a   Wang, Ningning ^a   Kulkarni, Santosh ^a   Roy, Saibal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

High frequency soft magnetic materials; integrated passives; magnetics on silicon; nano structured magnetic materials; power supply in package; power supply on chip

Indexed keywords

HIGH FREQUENCY HF; INTEGRATED PASSIVES; NANO-STRUCTURED; POWER SUPPLY; POWER SUPPLY-ON-CHIP;

MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

POWER CONVERTERS;

EID: 84862993292     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2012.2198891     Document Type: Review

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