New Use of Mn-Zn Ferrite Material in Power Electronics Integrated LC Filters
- 1 DFR-GEE, INP Houphouet Boigny, Yamoussoukro, Cote d’Ivoire
- 2 LAPLACE, Université de Toulouse, INPT, CNRS, UPS, Toulouse, France
- 3 LAPLACE, Université de Toulouse, INPT, CNRS, UPS, Toulouse, France
- 4 LAPLACE, Université de Toulouse, INPT, CNRS, UPS, Toulouse, France
- 5 LAPLACE, Université de Toulouse, INPT, CNRS, UPS, Toulouse, France
Abstract
A new structure of integrated low-pass LC filter of DC-DC power converter is proposed in this paper. This filter consists in a circular planar coil enclosed between two ferrites substrates. Mn-Zn ferrite has been chosen because of its high permeability and permittivity. In this filter Mn-Zn substrates act not only as a magnetic core but also as a capacitor. In order to reduce the conduction losses in the part of the ferrite used as a capacitor, a particular topology using a blocking layer is proposed. A modelling of the dielectric behaviour of the materials has been performed and injected in a simulation in order to find the resulting LC filter performances and its power range of use. In order to increase the filter efficiency, different solutions have been explored. In particular the inter-turn gap evolution has been optimized to reduce the inter - turn losses. Regarding the bulk losses, BaTiO 3 blocking layers ha ve been added, either upon the ground or the conductor. In this last case a co-firing ferrite tape has been inserted between turns to increase the LC product. Finally the use of low losses Mn-Zn and BaTiO 3 has been proposed and the final characteristics (both electrical and dimensional) of our filter have been compared toconventional ones.
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