90% High efficiency and 100-W/cm3 high power density integrated DC-DC converter for cellular phones

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1994-2004

  Sugahara, Satoshi ^a   Yamada, Kouhei ^a   Edo, Masaharu ^a   Sato, Toshiro ^b   Yamasawa, Kiyohito ^b  

^a FUJI ELECTRIC CO   (Japan)

^b SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Current consumption reduction; dc dc converter; Efficiency; Miniaturization; Negative current prevention; Power density; Pulse frequency modulation (PFM); Thin inductor

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874607328     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2012.2197762     Document Type: Article

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