Modeling and measured verification of stored energy and loss in MEMS toroidal inductors

2012 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 3293-3300

  Araghchini, Mohammad ^a   Lang, Jeffrey H ^a   Yu, Xuehong ^b   Kim, Min Soo ^b   Herrault, Florian ^b   Allen, Mark G ^b   Qiu, Jizheng ^c   Sullivan, Charles R ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR CORE; DIRECT MEASUREMENT; EQUIVALENT INDUCTANCE; EQUIVALENT RESISTANCE; EQUIVALENT-CIRCUIT MODEL; HIGH ASPECT RATIO; INTEGRATED POWER ELECTRONICS; MICROFABRICATED; SINGLE LAYER; STORED ENERGY; TOROIDAL INDUCTORS; WINDING TURNS;

ASPECT RATIO; CIRCUIT THEORY; ENERGY CONVERSION; EXHIBITIONS; POWER ELECTRONICS;

WINDING;

EID: 84870882649     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ECCE.2012.6342338     Document Type: Conference Paper

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