This article presents an overview of saturable inductors that are intentionally saturated by
the load current and their applications to power supplies. After introducing the fundamentals …

Switch‐mode power supplies (SMPSs) are widely exploited to interface electrical energy
sources to motors and other electrical loads. Inductors are usually the biggest and heaviest …

High-frequency and high-power density converters are essential for many applications such
as automotive and more electric aircraft. To improve power density, planar magnetic …

The paper is focused on the modelling of an inductor to exploit its non-linear behaviour in
the roll-off region when it is employed in a DC/DC converter. The model is set up on the …

In this paper a nonlinear model is proposed to characterize ferrite-core inductors operating
in saturation region in Switch-Mode Power Supplies (SMPSs). The model, identified through …

This paper discusses some models useful to analyze ferrite inductors operating in partial
saturation in Switch-Mode Power Supplies (SMPSs). Inductance vs current curves are …

This paper discusses a novel method to validate Sustainable Saturation Operation (SSO) of
ferrite inductors in switching power supplies design. SSO is achieved when an inductor …

In this paper a piecewise-affine (PWA) power-Ioss-dependent inductance behavioral model
is proposed, for ferrite-core inductors used in switch-mode power supplies (SMPSs). The …

Abstract Ferrite Core Power Inductors (FCPIs) operation in partial saturation offers
unexplored opportunities in reducing the size of magnetic parts and the power losses in …

We follow up with recent proposals of using inductors working in weak and deep-saturation
region to improve the features of switching mode power supplies. To this aim, we use a …