This unique text examines design techniques of the major types of inductors and transformers used for a wide variety of high–frequency applications including switching–mode power supplies (SMPS) and resonant circuits. It describes skin effect and proximity effect in detail to provide you with a sound understanding of high–frequency phenomena. As well as this, you will discover thorough coverage on:

• integrated inductors and the self–capacitance of inductors and transformers, with expressions for self–capacitances in magnetic components;
• criteria for selecting the core material, as well as core shape and size, and an evaluation of soft ferromagnetic materials used for magnetic cores;
• winding resistance at high frequencies;
• expressions for winding and core power losses when non–sinusoidal inductor or transformer current waveforms contain harmonics.

Case studies, practical design examples and procedures (using the area product method and the geometry coefficient method) are expertly combined with concept–orientated explanations and student–friendly analysis. Supplied at the end of each chapter are summaries of the key concepts, review questions, and problems, the answers to which are available in a separate solutions manual.

Such features make this a fantastic textbook for graduates, senior level undergraduates and professors in the area of power electronics in addition to electrical and computer engineering. This is also an inimitable reference guide for design engineers of power electronics circuits, high–frequency transformers and inductors in areas such as (SMPS) and RF power amplifiers and circuits.