Integrated Transformer with Buried Windings in Ferrite Core

Mahamat Ahmat Taha; Mahamat Hassan Bechir; Ouzer Nabil Adam; Arafat Ousman Bechir; Boukhari Mahamat Issa; Yaya Dagal Dari; David Pietroy; Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Integrated Transformer with Buried Windings in Ferrite Core

Mahamat Ahmat Taha, Mahamat Hassan Bechir, Ouzer Nabil Adam, Arafat Ousman Bechir, Boukhari Mahamat Issa, Yaya Dagal Dari, David Pietroy, Jean Jacques Rousseau

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In the field of electronics, one of the objectives of current research is to integrate numerous components in increasingly smaller volumes. Reducing the cost of manufacturing components requires integration and collective manufacturing. This paper mainly focuses on the design and the main steps of the micro-fabrication of a transformer with magnetic layers. Windings have been buried in a ferrite core by using Femtosecond Laser Micromachining. Such a burying of windings avoids air gap and greatly increases primary and secondary inductances. Different technological steps from copper deposition to the realization of the grooves in the magnetic material (in the case of the buried transformer) through etching, gilding, lapping, sawing, polishing and gluing have been described. We also used a negative photoresist (SU-8) as an insulating layer and as a support for the fabrication of an air bridge to connect the center pad of the coils to the ground plane. The micro-transformer was characterized with a Vector Network Analyzer and the bandwidth was observed from 20 kHz to 7 MHz. The gain in the bandwidth is equal to 0,86. The buried conductors allow to increase the magnetizing inductance of the transformer and the shift of 45° between the primary and secondary windings allows to decrease the capacitive coupling.

Published in	Journal of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Volume 10, Issue 1)
DOI	10.11648/j.jeee.20221001.12
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Integrated Micro-transformer, Femtosecond Laser Micromachining, Buried Windings, Ferrite

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Mahamat Ahmat Taha

Hubert Curien Laboratory, Jean Monnet University of Saint Etienne, Saint Etienne, France
Mahamat Hassan Bechir

Hubert Curien Laboratory, Jean Monnet University of Saint Etienne, Saint Etienne, France
Ouzer Nabil Adam

Hubert Curien Laboratory, Jean Monnet University of Saint Etienne, Saint Etienne, France
Arafat Ousman Bechir

Hubert Curien Laboratory, Jean Monnet University of Saint Etienne, Saint Etienne, France
Boukhari Mahamat Issa

Hubert Curien Laboratory, Jean Monnet University of Saint Etienne, Saint Etienne, France
Yaya Dagal Dari

Hubert Curien Laboratory, Jean Monnet University of Saint Etienne, Saint Etienne, France
David Pietroy

Hubert Curien Laboratory, Jean Monnet University of Saint Etienne, Saint Etienne, France
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Hubert Curien Laboratory, Jean Monnet University of Saint Etienne, Saint Etienne, France

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