ABSTRACT
It is well known and recognized that magnetic components should be avoided when designing integrated circuits due to their lack of integrability. New developments in the field of magnetic component fabrication are promising devices that can be integrated and miniaturized using monolithic fabrication techniques as opposed to today's bulk methods. The driving forces for such developments rest in certain applications that benefit or rely on inductive or magnetically coupled devices using ferromagnetic media. Examples of such applications include tuned RF tanks, matching networks, dc-dc power conversion and regulation, network filters, and line isolators/couplers.
