Novel silicon-embedded coreless transformer for on-chip isolated signal transfer

IEEE Magnetics Letters

Volumn 2, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Wu, Rongxiang ^a   Sin, Johnny K O ^a   Hui, S Y ^b  

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

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

integrated circuits; isolation technology; Magnetic instruments; transformers

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM LAYERS; CORELESS TRANSFORMER; ISOLATION TECHNOLOGY; MAGNETIC INSTRUMENTS; MONOLITHIC TRANSFORMERS; ON CHIPS; SIGNAL TRANSFER; SILICON SUBSTRATES; SMALL AREA; THROUGH-VIAS; VOLTAGE GAIN;

COMPASSES (MAGNETIC);

FABRICATION;

EID: 79958710604     PISSN: 1949307X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LMAG.2011.2129555     Document Type: Article

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