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Performance Trends of on-Chip Spiral Inductors for Rfics
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, Vol. 45, 123-151, 2004
Abstract
Abstract-Performance trends varying with different geometrical parameters for on-chip spiral inductors: (a) with fixed inner-dimension, (b) with outer-dimension, and (c) variation in both inner- and outerdimensions are extensively investigated in this paper. The relationships for the inductance, Q-factor and self-resonance frequency (SRF) with various geometrical parameters, such as track width, track spacing, and turn numbers are examined on an extensive experiment basis. These performance trends can be a good guideline for practical inductor designs in RFICs.
Citation
S. Pan, Wen-Yan Yin, and Joshua Le-Wei Li, "Performance Trends of on-Chip Spiral Inductors for Rfics," , Vol. 45, 123-151, 2004.
doi:10.2528/PIER03062303
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