Design and simulation of novel planar Micro-transformer with high quality factor

Subject Areas : Majlesi Journal of Telecommunication Devices

Bahram Azizollah Ganji ¹ , Mohammad Molanzadeh ²

1 - Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Babol Noshirvani University of Technology,
2 - Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Babol Noshirvani University of Technology,

Received: 2016-01-23 Accepted : 2016-02-13 Published : 2016-03-01

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