The scope of this application note is to define the terminology associated with inductors and their applications. Some of these terms are listed in the component data sheets. Many terms go beyond the specification of inductors. These terms describe issues associated with inductor design and performance, magnetic materials and theory and applications. A thorough understanding of these terms and ...

This paper presents a physical model for planar spiral inductors on silicon, which accounts for eddy current effect in the conductor, crossover capacitance between the spiral and center-tap, capacitance between the spiral and substrate, substrate ohmic loss, and substrate capacitance. The model has been confirmed with measured results of inductors having a wide range of layout and process param...

This paper proposes an optimization methodology of on-chip spiral inductors. Characteristics of spiral inductors heavily depend on layout structures. We then formulate the characteristics with structural parameters and frequency as variables using a response surface method. The proposed method uses S-parameters to express inductor characteristics, and hence our method is independent of spiral g...

Inductor Inductor Capacitor (LLC) resonant converter has gained attention of researchers and engineers these days High efficiency, power density and Reliability. LLC resonant converter is most suitable resonant converter for front end DC-DC applications. Integrated magnetic, ZVS and high frequency operation, make the converter more compact and efficient. In this paper brief analysis of the LLC ...

A full-bridge converter which employs a coupled inductor to achieve zero-voltage switching of the primary switches in the entire line and load range is described. Because the coupled inductor does not appear as a series inductance in the load current path, it does not cause a loss of duty cycle or severe voltage ringing across the output rectifier. The operation and performance of the proposed ...

Micro-spiral inductor dedicated to microbeads manipulation in a fluidic channel had been optimized by analytical modelling correlated to multi physics fem numerical Maxwell®3D L software. Main advantage of the analytical model described below is time analysis calculus decrease of and the capability offered to optimize geometrical and electrical parameters of the inductor. First experimental res...

Coupled-inductor-based boost converters suffer from high switch current stress in steady state and transient due to less self-inductance value their winding. In this article, a generalized reduction technique is proposed by modifying circuit topology of coupled-inductor-based step-up converter (CIHBC). This achieved half-cycle resonating branch utilizing inductance coupled inductor. Furthermore...

Synchronous buck converters generate broadband noise typically in 50 – 300 MHz range due to the parasitic LC resonance in the switching loop which consists of input decoupling capacitors, high-side MOSFET and low-side MOSFET. Typically, this parasitic resonance is attenuated using an R-C snubber placed parallel to the low-side MOSFET. However, selection of the R and C value of the snubber is no...

In this paper, a CMOS radio frequency (RF) multi-band band-pass amplifier using a high-Q active inductor load with a binary code band selector suitable for multi-standards wireless applications is proposed. By employing the improved high-Q active inductor including two bits binary controlled code, the RF multi-band amplifier operating at four different frequency bands is realized. The proposed ...

In airborne AC power system, input current may distort at the vicinity of input voltage zero crossing in Power Factor Correction (PFC) converter. This paper is analyzed the essential causes of the zero-crossing distortion and points out that the major causes are the value of inductor and the phase displacement between input current and input voltage. By adopting parallel interleaving technique,...