Coupled inductors for fast-response high-density power delivery: Discrete and integrated

CR Sullivan, M Chen - 2021 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multiphase interleaved buck converters benefit from coupling inductors between phases.
The coupling fundamentally alters the trade-offs between ripple current, loss, energy …

Integrating magnetics for on-chip power: A perspective

CR Sullivan, DV Harburg, J Qiu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Integration of efficient power converters requires technology for efficient, high-power on-chip
inductors and transformers. Increases in switching frequency, facilitated by advances in …

Microfabricated V-groove power inductors using multilayer Co–Zr–O thin films for very-high-frequency DC–DC converters

D Yao, CG Levey, R Tian… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
V-groove microinductors are designed, fabricated, and tested for operation above 10 MHz.
Multilayer nanogranular Co-Zr-O/ZrO 2 magnetic thin films are used as the core material of …

High-bandwidth low-insertion loss solenoid transformers using FeCoB multilayers

X Xing, NX Sun, B Chen - IEEE transactions on power …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
High-bandwidth low-insertion loss solenoid transformers using a multilayered FeCoB
magnetic core have been designed, modeled, fabricated, and characterized for high …

Magnetic integration into a silicon carbide power module for current balancing

Z Miao, Y Mao, GQ Lu, KDT Ngo - IEEE Transactions on Power …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Threshold-voltage mismatch among paralleled dies leads to unbalanced turn-on peak
currents and switching energies, thus degrading reliability. A passive method employing …

On-chip coupled solenoid inductors for integrated power conversion

Y He, R Wu, Z Zhong, H Zhang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Magnetic core inductors with a sufficiently high coupling factor are critical for interleaved dc–
dc converters. In current work, solenoid coupled inductors with a joint magnetic core were …

A 2.7-mW 1.36–1.86-GHz LC-VCO with a FOM of 202 dBc/Hz enabled by a 26%-size-reduced nano-particle-magnetic-enhanced inductor

HL Cai, Y Yang, N Qi, X Chen, H Tian… - IEEE transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper reports the first LC voltage-controlled oscillator (LC-VCO) in CMOS utilizing a
novel nontraditional compact inductor with integrated vertical nano particles magnetic core …

On-chip coupled inductors with a novel spliced anisotropic and isotropic magnetic core for inductance and coupling enhancement

Y He, Z Zhang, R Wu, W Guo, H Zhang, F Bai - Solid-State Electronics, 2020 - Elsevier
On-chip solenoid coupled inductors with a spliced anisotropic and isotropic magnetic core
were proposed and demonstrated for high efficiency DC-DC conversion. The proposed …

Integrated transformers with sputtered laminated magnetic core

J Mullenix, A El-Ghazaly… - IEEE transactions on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Integrated interleaved solenoid transformers with a single layer of laminated magnetic core
have been designed and fabricated. A coupling coefficient of> 0.97 was achieved for a …

Proposed inductor power loss metric and novel embedded toroidal inductor for integrated voltage regulators

CA Barros, P Murali, M Swaminathan… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
High-density package-embedded inductors enable the miniaturization of high conversion
ratio integrated voltage regulators (IVRs). In this work, we present a new embedded inductor …