High self-resonant and area efficient monolithic transformer using novel intercoil-crossing structure for silicon RFIC

IEEE Electron Device Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1376-1379

  Lim, Chee Chong ^a,b   Yeo, Kiat Seng ^a   Chew, Kok Wai ^b   Gu, Jiang Min ^a   Alper, Cabuk ^a   Lim, Suh Fei ^b   Boon, Chirn Chye ^a   Qiu, Ping ^a,b   Do, Manh Anh ^a   Chan, Lap ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Coils; Inductance; Inductors; Modeling; Transformers

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION; ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SILICON; TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY;

AREA EFFICIENCIES; AREA EFFICIENT; AREA UTILIZATIONS; CHARTERED SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING; COILS; DIFFERENTIAL TRANSMISSION LINES; INDUCTORS; METALLIZATION LAYERS; MODELING; MONOLITHIC TRANSFORMERS; ON CHIPS; PERFORMANCE COMPARISONS; RESONANT FREQUENCIES; RFCMOS TECHNOLOGIES; SECONDARY COILS; STACKED TRANSFORMERS; STANDARD CMOS; TRANSFORMERS;

NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

EID: 54049099662     PISSN: 07413106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LED.2008.2006765     Document Type: Article

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