Investigation of a multigigahertz MOSFET amplifier with an on-chip inductor fabricated on a SIMOX wafer

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 173-178

  Harada, Mitsuru ^a   Yamaguchi, Chikara ^a   Tsuchiya, Toshiaki ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC INDUCTORS; LSI CIRCUITS; MOSFET DEVICES; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY; SILICON WAFERS;

SEPARATION BY IMPLANTED OXYGEN (SIMOX) TECHNOLOGY;

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC);

EID: 0031672299     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/16.658827     Document Type: Article

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