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Shelas Sathyan, PhD.
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical& Electronics Engineering
National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli
MOSFET Gate Driver Design
2. Power Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field-Effect
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27. Introduction
Desired characteristic of magnetic materials are:
High relative permeability μr,
High saturation magnetic flux density Bsat ,
Low coercivity Hc ,
High electrical resistivity ρc ,
High Curie temperature (Tc), low hysteresis and eddy-current
losses per unit volume
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31. Ferrite
Widely used material for inductors and transformers in power electronics.
They are made up of iron oxide (Fe2O3), combine with other metals such
as cobalt (Co), copper (Cu), magnesium (Mg), manganese (Mn), nickel
(Ni), silicon (Si) and zinc (Zn).
Typical saturation flux density is in the range 0.25–0.45 T for the different
material grades.
High resistivity so lower eddy current loss.
Low curie temperature. This must be taken into account while designing.
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36. Powder Core
Iron or iron alloy powder is compressed with insulation materials
Insulating material provide distributed air gap, so low value of
effective relative permeability.
The distributed gap helps to tolerate high DC current before the
iron saturates
Have high resistivity, low hysteresis and eddy current losses, and
excellent inductance stability under both DC and AC conditions
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37. Effective inductance value is stable over a wide temperature
range
Have high saturation flux density
The lack of localized air gap eliminates a fringing effect
Curie temperature is about Tc= 450◦C
Effective permeability is in the range of 15-550
Basically available in toroidal shape. Sendust and MPP are
available in both toroidal and E cores
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44. Performance comparison of Ferrite and
Powder cores
Material Core
Loss
DC
Bias
Relative
Cost
Saturation
Flux
Density
(Tesla)
Curie
Tempe-
rature
Operating
frequency
Tempe-
rature
stability
AmoFlux Low Better Medium 1.5 400° C 2 MHz Betetr
High Flux Moderate Best Medium 1.5 500° C 1 MHz Better
Sendust Low Good Low 1.0 500° C 2 MHz Good
MPP
Very Low Better High 0.75 460° C 2 MHz Best
XFlux High Best Low 1.6 700° C 500 kHz Good
Iron
Powder
Highest Good Lowest 1.2 - 1.5 770° C 200 kHz Poor
Ferrite Lowest Poor Lowest 0.45 100 - 250°
C
2MHz Poor
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