Accurate modeling of lossy silicon substrate for on-chip inductors and transformers design

IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium, RFIC, Digest of Technical Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 627-630

  Huo, X ^a   Chen, Kevin J ^a   Luong, Howard ^a   Chan, Philip C H ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Eddy currents; Inductor model; On chip inductors; Skin effect; Substrate loss

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; EDDY CURRENTS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC LOSSES; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FREQUENCIES; IMPEDANCE MATCHING (ELECTRIC); SILICON; SKIN EFFECT; VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS; VLSI CIRCUITS;

INDUCTOR MODELS; ON-CHIP INDUCTORS; RADIO FREQUENCY (RF); SUBSTRATE LOSSES;

ELECTRIC INDUCTORS;

EID: 4444361473     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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