• DocumentCode
    2542934
  • Title

    The Light Load Issue of Coupled Inductor Laptop Voltage Regulators and its solutions

  • Author

    Dong, Yan ; Sun, Julu ; Xu, Ming ; Lee, Fred C. ; Jovanovic, Milan M.

  • Author_Institution
    Center for Power Electronics Systems, The Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    Feb. 25 2007-March 1 2007
  • Firstpage
    1581
  • Lastpage
    1587
  • Abstract
    This paper illustrates the low light load efficiency issue of a coupled inductor laptop voltage regulator (VR). Solutions to solve this low light load efficiency issue are investigated. Experiments are implemented and the proposed solutions are verified by the experimental results. They are promising solutions for the future of laptop VRs.
  • Keywords
    Inductance; Inductors; Microprocessors; Optical coupling; Portable computers; Regulators; Steady-state; Testing; Virtual reality; Voltage; Voltage regulator (VR); coupled inductor; laptop; light load efficiency;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Applied Power Electronics Conference, APEC 2007 - Twenty Second Annual IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Anaheim, CA, USA
  • ISSN
    1048-2334
  • Print_ISBN
    1-4244-0713-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/APEX.2007.357728
  • Filename
    4195931