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Design and Assessment of Track Structures in High-Frequency Planar Inductors

Kolahian, P; Zarei Tazehkand, M; Baghdadi, M; (2024) Design and Assessment of Track Structures in High-Frequency Planar Inductors. Energies , 17 (4) , Article 923. 10.3390/en17040923. Green open access

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Abstract

This paper investigates the effect of different designs and arrangements of conductors on the operational parameters of a planar inductor. Accordingly, it is suggested that there is no one-size-fits-all design that can achieve all desired parameters in every application, and the best design should be determined by the needs of the application. In order to have a comprehensive study, four different structures are considered and compared. Numerous design parameters such as track width, track length, location of the conductors between the central limb and the lateral limb, and number of transposition points among subtracks for both air-core and ferrite-core inductors are considered. Each structure is evaluated according to AC resistance, (Formula presented.), and inductance. Measurement results reveal that it is critical to take into account all three characteristics when deciding the suitable structure for the conductors. Studies are carried out based on measurement results for experimental prototypes in the frequency range of 10 Hz–1 MHz, and a set of guidelines is provided with regard to the design of planar inductors to achieve desired characteristics.

Type: Article
Title: Design and Assessment of Track Structures in High-Frequency Planar Inductors
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.3390/en17040923
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en17040923
Language: English
Additional information: © 2024 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Keywords: planar inductors; Litz structure; skin effect; proximity effect
UCL classification: UCL
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URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10188416
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