Modeling of metal and substrate losses in CMOS and BiCMOS inductors for RFICs

Microwave Journal

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 1999, Pages

  Arcioni, Paolo ^a   Castello, Rinaldo ^a   Perregrini, Luca ^a   Sacchi, Enrico ^a   Svelto, Francesco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGAMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; Q FACTOR MEASUREMENT;

ELECTROMAGNETIC COUPLING; SILICON INTEGRATED INDUCTORS;

ELECTRIC INDUCTORS;

EID: 18744434875     PISSN: 01926225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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