This paper presents the design of miniaturized bond wire transformers assembled with standard IC bonding wires and NiZn and MnZn ferrite toroidal cores. Several prototypes are fabricated on a PCB substrate with various layouts in a 4.95 mm × 4.95 mm area. The devices are modeled by analytical means and characterized with impedance measurements over a wide frequency range. Experimental results on 1 : 38 device show that the secondary self-inductance increases from 0.3 uH with air-core to 315 uH with ferrite core; the coupling coefficient improves from 0.1 with air-core to 0.9 with ferrite core; the effective turns ratio enhances from 0.5 with air-core to 34 with ferrite core. This approach is cost-effective and enables a flexible design of efficient micro-magnetics on-top of ICs with DC inductance to resistance ratio of 70 uH/Ohm and an inductance per unit area of 12.8 uH/mm^2 up to 0.3 MHz. The design targets the development of bootstrap circuits for ultra-low voltage energy harvesting. In this context, a low voltage step-up oscillator suitable for TEG sources is realized with a commercial IC and the proposed micro-transformers. Experimental measurements on a discrete prototype report that the circuit bootstraps from voltages down to 260 mV and outputs a DC voltage of 2 V.

Modeling, Design, and Fabrication of High Inductance Bond Wire Micro-Transformers with Toroidal Ferrite Core / Enrico Macrelli; Aldo Romani; Ningning Wang; Saibal Roy; Mike Hayes; Rudi Paolo Paganelli; Cian O'Mathuna; Marco Tartagni. - In: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER ELECTRONICS. - ISSN 0885-8993. - STAMPA. - 30:10(2015), pp. 5724-5737. [10.1109/TPEL.2014.2370814]

Modeling, Design, and Fabrication of High Inductance Bond Wire Micro-Transformers with Toroidal Ferrite Core

MACRELLI, ENRICO;ROMANI, ALDO;PAGANELLI, RUDI PAOLO;TARTAGNI, MARCO
2015

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This paper presents the design of miniaturized bond wire transformers assembled with standard IC bonding wires and NiZn and MnZn ferrite toroidal cores. Several prototypes are fabricated on a PCB substrate with various layouts in a 4.95 mm × 4.95 mm area. The devices are modeled by analytical means and characterized with impedance measurements over a wide frequency range. Experimental results on 1 : 38 device show that the secondary self-inductance increases from 0.3 uH with air-core to 315 uH with ferrite core; the coupling coefficient improves from 0.1 with air-core to 0.9 with ferrite core; the effective turns ratio enhances from 0.5 with air-core to 34 with ferrite core. This approach is cost-effective and enables a flexible design of efficient micro-magnetics on-top of ICs with DC inductance to resistance ratio of 70 uH/Ohm and an inductance per unit area of 12.8 uH/mm^2 up to 0.3 MHz. The design targets the development of bootstrap circuits for ultra-low voltage energy harvesting. In this context, a low voltage step-up oscillator suitable for TEG sources is realized with a commercial IC and the proposed micro-transformers. Experimental measurements on a discrete prototype report that the circuit bootstraps from voltages down to 260 mV and outputs a DC voltage of 2 V.
2015
Modeling, Design, and Fabrication of High Inductance Bond Wire Micro-Transformers with Toroidal Ferrite Core / Enrico Macrelli; Aldo Romani; Ningning Wang; Saibal Roy; Mike Hayes; Rudi Paolo Paganelli; Cian O'Mathuna; Marco Tartagni. - In: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER ELECTRONICS. - ISSN 0885-8993. - STAMPA. - 30:10(2015), pp. 5724-5737. [10.1109/TPEL.2014.2370814]
Enrico Macrelli; Aldo Romani; Ningning Wang; Saibal Roy; Mike Hayes; Rudi Paolo Paganelli; Cian O'Mathuna; Marco Tartagni
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