Powerful Knowledge 9 - Magnetics Design for High Performance Power Converters

 

 Magnetics design is often the most overlooked aspect of the design of power electronic converters. This is episode 9 of our 'Powerful Knowledge' series and we go into some depths of how to approach magnetics design using energy storage as a starting point with an example of a mains input 50W flyback converter running at 100kHz switching frequency. We cover aspects such as winding structure, basic core loss modelling, impacting of fringing fields near the airgap and practical characterization.