Characterization of radiated electromagnetic fields using equivalent sources – Application to the EMC of power printed circuit boards

This article presents an original methodology to characterize electromagnetic disturbances radiated from power electronic devices. The method is based on the substitution of the power device by an equivalent set of elemental dipoles (electric and magnetic dipoles). The set of dipoles radiates the same near-field. The dipoles are determined from a near field cartography of the fields obtained with a measurement bench. The dipoles parameters are determined by solving an inverse problem using a genetic algorithm. The efficiency of the approach is demonstrated on an academic DC-DC converter. Finally some results about the chopper are presented. The methodology has two advantages: first it allows one to define some threshold limitations for electromagnetic fields on the surroundings and secondly it gives the location of the real source distribution. To cite this article: L. Beghou et al., C. R. Physique 10 (2009).