Analysis, design, and optimization of spiral inductors and transformers for Si RF IC's

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1470-1481

  Niknejad, Ali M ^{a,b,c,d,e,f,g}   Meyer, Robert G ^a,b,h  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e RAYTHEON COMPANY   (United States)

^f TEXAS INSTRUMENTS   (United States)

^g NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Monolithic inductors and transformers; Optimization of Si inductors and transformers; Spiral inductors and transformers

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER AIDED NETWORK ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC INDUCTORS; ELECTRIC NETWORK SYNTHESIS; ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS; ELECTROSTATICS; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURE; LUMPED PARAMETER NETWORKS; MAGNETOSTATICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION;

SPIRAL INDUCTORS; SPIRAL TRANSFORMERS;

EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS;

EID: 0032186601     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/4.720393     Document Type: Article

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