A toroidal inductor integrated in a standard CMOS process

Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 39-46

  Vandi, Luca ^a   Andreani, Pietro ^a   Temporiti, Enrico ^b   Sacchi, Enrico ^b   Bietti, Ivan ^b   Ghezzi, Cesare ^c   Castello, Rinaldo ^c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b STMICROELECTRONICS   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

CMOS; Inductors; Monolithic; Toroidal coils

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INDUCTANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; RESONANCE;

SELF-RESONANCE; TOROIDAL COILS; TOROIDAL INDUCTORS;

ELECTRIC INDUCTORS;

EID: 33845474484     PISSN: 09251030     EISSN: 15731979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10470-006-9153-y     Document Type: Conference Paper

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