Implementation of high-coupling and broadband transformer in RFCMOS technology

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1410-1414

  Hsu, Heng Ming ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Analytical formula; Broadband; Calculation of mutual inductance; High coupling; Silicon based; Transformer

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS; INDUCTANCE; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ANALYTICAL FORMULA; BRODBAND TRANSFORMER; CALCULATION OF MUTUAL INDUCTANCE; GEOMETRIC MEAN DISTANCE (GMD) ALGORITHM; HIGH COUPLING TRANSFORMER; SILICON BASED TECHNOLOGY;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 23944486225     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2005.850640     Document Type: Article

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