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IEEE JOURNAL OF EMERGING AND SELECTED TOPICS IN POWER ELECTRONICS
Volume 11, Issue 4, Pages 4295-4312Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/JESTPE.2023.3278689
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& nbsp;Fringing effect; high frequency; inductors; magnetic circuit; magnetomotive force (MMF); magnetoresistance; proximity effects
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In this article, a novel air-gapless core structure based on magnetic building blocks (MBBs) is proposed to reduce the fringing and proximity effects in high-frequency planar inductors. The optimized core structure can achieve a 46% reduction in ac resistance, which has been verified through theoretical analysis and finite-element simulations.
Fringing and proximity effects are the main reasons for serious ac copper loss in high-frequency planar inductors. In this article, a novel air-gapless core structure based on magnetic building blocks (MBBs) with magnetoresistance parallel and symmetrically distributed relative to the windings is proposed, in which two magnetic building blocks parallel to the printed circuit board (PCB) windings are made of metal soft magnetic material with low relative permeability and three magnetic building blocks perpendicular to windings are made of ferrite with high relative permeability. Equivalent magnetic circuit models and theoretical analysis for the proposed core structure reveal that even if the interleaved winding structure fails in the inductor, a better distribution of magnetomotive force can be obtained by optimizing the distribution of magnetoresistance. Compared with the conventional inductors using stand airgaps, both the fringing and proximity effects can be weakened by the designed parallel symmetrical magnetoresistance core structure, which has been verified in 3-D finite-element analysis (FEA)-based simulations. The FEA calculated results show that the proposed optimized core structure can achieve a 46% reduction in ac resistance, and this advantage will extend with increasing frequency over a certain frequency range. On a boost converter operating in critical conduction mode, experimental verification including converter efficiency test and inductor loss test was carried out. The maximum efficiency improvement was 1.4%, and the reduction of inductor loss was also verified.
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