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Inductors with Core Feature Multiple Resonances

29.3.2019
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Source: InCompliance article

by Arturo Mediano. Resonances in components are a well-known topic for electronic designers when working in high frequencies (e.g. EMI/EMC). Do not forget to test your components with an impedance analyzer, especially if they are custom magnetic components.

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Designers working in high frequencies know that impedance of components as a function of frequency is not ideal. This is critical when trying to design circuits in high frequencies as for example in RF wireless systems or EMI/EMC design.

First, when learning circuit theory fundamentals, you work with capacitances, inductances, resistances, etc. Then, when trying to build your circuits you replace those ideal elements with capacitors, inductors, resistors, etc.

If the real component is equivalent to the ideal element, the circuit will work as expected from theory. But, if the component behavior is not ideal you can obtain unexpected results and you need to find a more complex model for it.

In Figure 1 you can see a typical plot (measure) of the impedance of a capacitor and an inductor. The response of a real capacitor is not ideal (Figure 1, left) and, at self-resonant frequency SRF=1.18MHz (phase 0º) the capacitor switches from an ideal capacitive response (1/ωC) to an inductive response (ωL) because the parasitics in the component.

Figure 1: Impedance of a capacitor (left) and an inductor (right). (C) A.Mediano.

The response of a real inductor is not ideal (Figure 1, right), at self-resonant frequency SRF=1.87MHz (phase 0º) the inductor switches from an ideal inductive response (ωL) to a capacitive response (1/ωC) because the parasitics in the component.

That is because, when designing RF/EMI circuits (filters, decoupling networks, etc.) we consider typical series and parallel equivalent resonant circuits (Figure 2).

Figure 2: Typical model for a capacitor (left) and for an inductor (right).

A very interesting case is found in many inductors with core as the ones used in power electronic circuits with stacked cores and multi-wire cable (Figure 3): transformers, power factor corrector circuits, EMC filters, etc.

Figure 3: A typical inductor with stacked cores and multi-wire cable (C) A.Mediano

The response of impedance in frequency for those inductors offers several resonances as shown in Figure 4. Note that the component offers several resonant frequencies (not only one).

Figure 4: Typical response for one inductor with stacked cores and multi-wire cable. (C) A.Mediano

For the designer, it is difficult to model the component because several series and parallel resonant circuits will be needed to reproduce that behavior (a real complex model). Some designers use s-parameters to model the component but be careful with non-linearity as saturation. Why are those resonances dangerous?

Because for EMI/EMC, inductors are used many times in series (low pass filters, PFC inductor, etc.). The idea is to offer low impedance at low frequencies and high impedance at high frequencies.

But, if you think in resonances for markers 2, 4 and 6, at those frequencies the component offers low impedance (“short circuit”) so you will find an increase in emissions at those frequencies. In our example 10.9MHz, 31.4MHz, and 61.2MHz

If you do not measure the response of your inductor in your impedance analyzer, it will be difficult to understand why the emissions are especially bad at those frequencies.

The situation can be solved in several ways, for example, changing the inductor, replacing the cores with cores with losses in those frequencies (resonances will be with low Q), to modify the winding strategy, etc.

My final advice: test your inductors with stacked cores to compare emissions with their resonant frequencies. Sometimes you will be surprised with that comparison.

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Arturo Mediano received his M.Sc. (1990) and his Ph. D. (1997) in Electrical Engineering from University of Zaragoza (Spain), where he has held a teaching professorship in EMI/EMC/RF/SI from 1992. From 1990, he has been involved in R&D projects in EMI/EMC/SI/RF fields for communications, industry and scientific/medical applications with a solid experience in training, consultancy and troubleshooting for companies in Spain, USA, Switzerland, France, UK, Italy, Belgium, Germany, Canada, The Netherlands, Portugal, and Singapore. He is the founder of The HF-Magic Lab®, a specialized laboratory for design, diagnostic, troubleshooting, and training in the EMI/EMC/SI and RF fields at I3A (University of Zaragoza), and from 2011, he is instructor for Besser Associates (CA, USA) offering public and on site courses in EMI/EMC/SI/RF subjects through the USA, especially in Silicon Valley/San Francisco Bay Area. He is Senior Member of the IEEE, active member from 1999 (Chair 2013-2016) of the MTT-17 (HF/VHF/UHF) Technical Committee of the Microwave Theory and Techniques Society and member of the Electromagnetic Compatibility Society

 

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