Design of low-loss transmission lines in scaled CMOS by accurate electromagnetic simulations

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2605-2615

  Vecchi, Federico ^a,b   Repossi, Matteo ^c   Eyssa, Wissam ^a,b   Arcioni, Paolo ^a   Svelto, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b SCUOLA UNIVERSITARIA SUPERIORE IUSS PAVIA   (Italy)

^c STMICROELECTRONICS   (Italy)

Author keywords

CMOS; EM simulators; Millimeter wave integrated circuits; Transmission lines; Wireless transceivers

Indexed keywords

CMOS; EM SIMULATORS; MILLIMETER-WAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; TRANSMISSION LINES; WIRELESS TRANSCEIVERS;

ELECTRIC LINES; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; MILLIMETER WAVES; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; TRANSCEIVERS; TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY; WAVE TRANSMISSION;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 70249146846     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2009.2023277     Document Type: Article

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