On-chip spiral inductors with patterned ground shields for Si-Based RF IC's

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 743-751

  Patrick Yue, C ^a,b   Wong, S Simon ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b Stanford University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Inductor; Inductor model; Patterned ground shield; Quality factor; Self resonance; Substrate loss; Substrate noise coupling

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SUBSTRATES;

PARASITIC RESISTANCES; PATTERNED GROUND SHIELD; QUALITY FACTOR; SUBSTRATE NOISE COUPLING;

ELECTRIC INDUCTORS;

EID: 0032075292     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/4.668989     Document Type: Article

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