Low-power voltage-controlled oscillators in 90-nm CMOS using high-quality thin-film postprocessed inductors

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1922-1929

  Linien, Dimitri ^a,b,c   Sun, Xiao ^a   Carchon, Geert ^a   Jeamsaksiri, Wutthinan ^a   Mercha, Abdelkarim ^a   Ramos, Javier ^a   Jenei, Snezana ^d   Wambacq, Piet ^a,b   Dehan, Morin ^a   Aspemyr, Lars ^e,f   Scholten, Andries J ^a,g   Decoutere, Stefaan ^a   Donnay, Stéphane ^a   De Raedt, Walter ^a  

^a IMEC   (Belgium)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^c Institute for the Promotion of Innovation By Science and Technology in Flanders   (Belgium)

^d ON SEMICONDUCTOR   (United States)

^e SWE   (United States)

^f LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^g PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Above IC; CMOS; Inductor; Radio frequency (RF); Voltage controlled oscillator (VCO); Wafer level packaging (WLP)

Indexed keywords

ABOVE IC; CMOS; RADIO FREQUENCY (RF); WAFER-LEVEL PACKAGING (WLP) TECHNOLOGY;

ELECTRIC INDUCTORS; ENERGY UTILIZATION; THIN FILMS; VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 25144453898     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2005.848144     Document Type: Conference Paper

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