Tunable coupled inductor Q-enhancement for parallel resonant LC tanks

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 705-713

  Georgescu, Bogdan ^a   Pekau, Holly ^a   Haslett, James ^a   McRory, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b TRLABS   (Canada)

Author keywords

CMOS; Distortion; LC filters; Monolithic; Noise; Q enhancement; Transformer

Indexed keywords

CIRCUIT RESONANCE; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DIGITAL FILTERS; ELECTRIC BREAKDOWN; ELECTRIC DISTORTION; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS; INDUCED CURRENTS; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT;

MONOLITHIC INDUCTOR; Q-ENHANCEMENT METHOD; VOLTAGE DROP;

ELECTRIC INDUCTORS;

EID: 0242302589     PISSN: 10577130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSII.2003.818366     Document Type: Article

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