Loss considerations for lumped inductors in silicon MMICs

IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest

Volumn 3, Issue , 1999, Pages 859-862

  Gevorgyan, S ^a   Aval, O ^a   Hansson, B ^a   Jacobsson, H ^a   Lewin, T ^a  

^a Ericsson Microwave Systems AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROUND PLANE; INDUCTANCE; LUMPED INDUCTORS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC COILS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC LOSSES; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; Q FACTOR MEASUREMENT; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON;

ELECTRIC INDUCTORS;

EID: 0033363767     PISSN: 0149645X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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