Recent years have brought increasing improvements in miniaturization, multi-functionality, performance, and energy efficiency to portable devices, home appliances, automobiles, industrial equipment, and other products. This means the electronic components used in these products must continue to become smaller and thinner and meet ever-higher performance requirements.
In the power supply circuitry at the core of these products, there is a demand for inductors that are smaller, with a thinner profile, lower DC resistance, higher current capacity, and higher reliability, along with increasingly low inductance in order to achieve high-speed switching in DC-DC converter ICs.
Murata's metal alloy power inductors "DFE series" make it possible to satisfy these requirements.