The increase of working frequencies in static converters used in power electronic applications requires a more realistic modeling of magnetic componems. The lumped équivalent electrical circuit assîgned to a comportent has about twenty éléments, derived by extemal impédance measurements only. This équivalent circuit, designed with a rigorous theoretical and expérimental approach, and quickly worked out using well ada^ted computer tools, enables ail the physical phenomena to be represented from DC to one or two décades beyond its operating frequency. A uniform température study has shown that the prédiction of the electric behavior of a transformer at any température, from its characterization at ambient température only, was possible for windings. On the other hand, suoplier data remain insufficient to correctly quantify the behavior of magnetic core. Moreover, résistances placed on the équivalent circuit to represent losses of the component hâve been validated by calorimetry. Thus, they allow dissipations to be determined with fine accuracy for a given source and load. To better characterize high frequency magnetic materials in the absence of complète and reliable data from ferrite manufacturers, a new origina! method has been developed. With this method requiring some expérimental précautions, simple analytical relations lead to the déduction of both complex permeability and complex permittivity at each frequency and uniform température. It also gives parameters applicable to any geometry of magnetic core and accounts for ail the physical phenomena occurring in the material when the frequency increases, notabiy the capacitive behavior that can be noticed in MnZn ferrites above tens of kHz. This method allows îron losses to be computed up to 10 MHz.
