Green energy applications such as hybrid vehicles, wind energy, and solar energy stand to reap big benefits from regulated electronic power conversion common to switch-mode power supplies (SMPS).

This technical FAQ examines why power delivery is going vertical, how embedded inductors overcome magnetic saturation, what ...

To operate at maximum efficiency, RF inductors should exhibit low parasitics and low resistive loss at the frequency of use. Consequently, air core inductors have long been the traditional choice for ...

Active inductors employ transistor-based networks to emulate the behaviour of passive inductors while offering tunability, reduced silicon area and integration into standard CMOS processes. By ...

For the PDF version of this article, click here. As the demand increases for higher-current, low-voltage multiphase synchronous buck converters, a method for sensing current without the penalty of ...

Advanced semiconductor technology allows an increasing number of transistors to be integrated onto ever-smaller silicon chips. This increases the power density, however, and presents power-management ...

Could the inductor be redesigned in a fundamentally new way? Yes, according to new work by researchers in the US, Japan and China who have made the first high-performance inductors from intercalated ...

A basic building block of modern technology, inductors are everywhere: cellphones, laptops, radios, televisions, cars. And surprisingly, they are essentially the same today as in 1831, when they were ...

A research team in the Netherlands investigated how copper planar air-core inductors can yield the required inductor properties to support sub-module power conversion in PV modules. The scientists ...

YouTuber [RimstarOrg], AKA Hackaday’s own [Steven Dufresne], shows how to make a DIY inductor for a specific inductance. This is obviously a great skill to learn as sometimes your design may call for ...