Optimum foil thickness of inductors conducting DC and non-sinusoidal periodic currents

IET Power Electronics

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 801-812

  Wojda, R P ^a   Kazimierczuk, M K ^a  

^a Wright State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AC CURRENTS; AC WINDINGS; APPROXIMATED EQUATIONS; DC COMPONENTS; DC-DC BUCK CONVERTER; DESIGN PROCEDURE; DISCONTINUOUS CONDUCTION MODE; FOIL THICKNESS; MULTIHARMONIC; MULTILAYER INDUCTOR; NON-SINUSOIDAL; OPTIMUM THICKNESS; PERIODIC CURRENT; POWER-LOSSES; PULSE-WIDTH-MODULATED; SINGLE LAYER; THEORETICAL PREDICTION;

WINDING;

ELECTRIC INDUCTORS;

EID: 84865837445     PISSN: 17554535     EISSN: 17554543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-pel.2011.0369     Document Type: Article

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