Physical modeling of spiral inductors on silicon

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 560-568

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

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; EDDY CURRENTS; OPTIMIZATION; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS; SUBSTRATES;

PLANAR SPIRAL INDUCTORS;

ELECTRIC INDUCTORS;

EID: 0033875648     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/16.824729     Document Type: Article

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