Magnetic components have been and will continue to be an essential element in power
conversion and management circuits. Due to this pivotal role, magnetic components have …

This preliminary road map is provided for state-of-the-art technologies and trends toward
integration of point-of-load converters. This paper encompasses an extended survey of …

Distributed air-gap inductors have the advantage of reducing winding loss in high switching
frequency dc/dc converters. However, they also have the disadvantage of uneven …

Today, every microprocessor is powered with a Voltage Regulator (VR), which is also known
as a high current Point-of-Load converter (POL). These circuits are mostly constructed using …

La demande d'accroissement des capacités des réseaux de transmission de données a fait
naître un besoin en composants tout optique. Le principal objectif de cette thèse a été de …

Increasing demands in end-user applications such as greater speed and bandwidth,
computing power, storage density with demands on energy efficiency have driven power …

The advent and proliferation of planar technologies for power converters are driven in part
by the overall trends in analog and digital electronics. These trends coupled with the …

Low profile power electronics components are currently in great demand. The rapid
advances in semiconductor and micro-electronics technology during the last ten years have …