There are provided a thin film coil and an electronic device having the same, the thin film coil including a substrate; and a coil pattern including a first coil strand and a second coil strand formed on both surfaces of the substrate, respectively, wherein the first coil strand formed on one surface of the substrate includes at least one gyration path that passes through the other surface of the substrate and gyrates.

Embodiments are directed to a method of forming a laminated magnetic inductor and resulting structures having anisotropic magnetic layers. A first magnetic stack is formed having one or more magnetic layers alternating with one or more insulating layers. A trench is formed in the first magnetic stack oriented such that an axis of the trench is perpendicular to a hard axis of the magnetic inductor. The trench is filled with a dielectric material.

Embodiments are directed to a method of forming a laminated magnetic inductor and resulting structures having multiple magnetic layer thicknesses. A first magnetic stack having one or more magnetic layers alternating with one or more insulating layers is formed in a first inner region of the laminated magnetic inductor. A second magnetic stack is formed opposite a major surface of the first magnetic stack in an outer region of the laminated magnetic inductor. A third magnetic stack is formed opposite a major surface of the second magnetic stack in a second inner region of the laminated magnetic inductor. The magnetic layers are formed such that a thickness of a magnetic layer in each of the first and third magnetic stacks is less than a thickness of a magnetic layer in the second magnetic stack.

A microfabricated laminated conductor, comprising at least two flat metallic conductors held together parallel by their edges by a first dielectric material anchor, such that there exists a gap of between several nanometers and several micrometers between most of the at least two flat metallic conductors.

An axial field rotary energy device has a PCB stator panel assembly between rotors with an axis of rotation. Each rotor has a magnet. The PCB stator panel assembly includes PCB panels. Each PCB panel can have layers, and each layer can have conductive coils. The PCB stator panel assembly can have a thermally conductive layer that extends from an inner diameter portion to an outer diameter portion thereof.

A series stacked, solenoidally wound, multipath inductor includes a plurality of turns disposed about a center region on two layers. The turns on the two layers have corresponding geometry therebetween. Each of the plurality of turns includes two or more segments that extend length-wise along the turns. The segments have positions that vary from an innermost position relative to the center region and an outermost position relative to the center region. A cross-over architecture is configured to couple the segments of a turn on one layer with the segments on a turn on another layer to form segment paths that have a substantially same length for all segment paths in a segment path grouping between the two layers.

There are provided a thin film coil and an electronic device having the same, the thin film coil including a substrate; and a coil pattern including a first coil strand and a second coil strand formed on both surfaces of the substrate, respectively, wherein the first coil strand formed on one surface of the substrate includes at least one gyration path that passes through the other surface of the substrate and gyrates.

A 3-dimensional (3-D) magnetic core device includes a substrate, a first magnetic shell formed on the substrate, and a first group of conductive traces embedded in a first insulator layer formed on the first magnetic shell. A magnetic core plane is formed on the first insulator layer, and a second group of conductive traces are embedded in a second insulator layer formed on the magnetic core plane. A second magnetic shell is formed on the second insulator layer, and the first and second group of conductive traces are conductively coupled by using conductive vias.

A parallel stacked multipath inductor includes a first layer including turns disposed about a center region, the turns on the first layer having segments that extend length-wise along the turns, the segments having positions that vary from an innermost position relative to the center region and an outermost position relative to the center region. A second layer includes turns electrically connected to the first layer along its length and disposed about the center region, the turns on the second layer having segments that extend length-wise along the turns, the segments having positions that vary from an innermost position and an outermost position relative to the center region. Cross-over architectures are configured to couple the segments on the first layer with the segments on the second layer to form segment paths that have a substantially same length for all segment paths per turn between the first and second layers.