Analysis and modeling of thick-metal spiral inductors on silicon

35th European Microwave Conference 2005 - Conference Proceedings

Volumn 1, Issue , 2005, Pages 81-84

  Scuderi, Angelo ^a   Biondi, Tonio ^b   Ragonese, Egidio ^a   Palmisano, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b STMICROELECTRONICS   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; INDUCTANCE; MICROWAVE DEVICES; Q FACTOR MEASUREMENT; WSI CIRCUITS;

METAL SPIRAL INDUCTORS; PROXIMITY EFFECTS; SHEET EXPRESSION;

ELECTRIC INDUCTORS;

EID: 33847165432     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EUMC.2005.1608798     Document Type: Conference Paper

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