Miniaturized multilayer inductors on GaAs three-dimensional MMIC

2007 Korea-Japan Microwave Conference, KJMW2007, Technical Digest 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 149-152

  Kaho, Takana ^a   Sasaki, Motoharu ^b   Yamaguchi, Yo ^a   Nishikawa, Kenjiro ^a   Uehara, Kazuhiro ^a  

^a NTT Corporation   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

GaAs; Multilayer inductors; Stacked inductors; Three dimensional MMIC technology

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GALLIUM ALLOYS; INDUCTANCE; MICROWAVE CIRCUITS; MICROWAVES; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

CIRCUIT SIZES; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD ANALYSIS; GAAS; MULTILAYER INDUCTORS; ON WAFERS; Q FACTORS; RESONANT FREQUENCIES; SINGLE LAYERS; STACKED INDUCTORS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MMIC TECHNOLOGY;

MULTILAYERS;

EID: 48149099638     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/KJMW.2007.4402262     Document Type: Conference Paper

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