Selective metal parallel shunting inductor and its VCO application

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1811-1818

  Wu, Chia Hsin ^a   Kuo, Chun Yi ^a,b   Liu, Shen Iuan ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Naval Technical School   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Distributed capacitance model; Inductor model; Spiral inductors; Stacked inductors; Symmetric inductors; Voltage controlled oscillator (VCO)

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CAPACITANCE; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ELECTRIC INDUCTORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

DISTRIBUTED CAPACITANCE MODEL; INDUCTOR MODEL; SPIRAL INDUCTORS; STACKED INDUCTORS; SYMMETRIC INDUCTORS;

VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS;

EID: 27144552970     PISSN: 10577122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2005.852924     Document Type: Article

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