Wireless communication has led to an explosive growth of emerging consumer and military
applications of radio frequency (RF), microwave and millimeter wave circuits and systems …

Passive components are indispensable in the design and development of microchips for
high-frequency applications. Inductors in particular are used frequently in radio frequency …

Silicon integrated circuit spiral inductors and transformers are analyzed using
electromagnetic analysis. With appropriate approximations, the calculations are reduced to …

This review of design principles for implementation of a spiral inductor in a silicon integrated
circuit fabrication process summarizes prior art in this field. In addition, a fast and physics …

The results of a comprehensive investigation into the characteristics and optimization of
inductors fabricated with the top-level metal of a submicron silicon VLSI process are …

This paper presents a physical model for planar spiral inductors on silicon. The model has
been confirmed with measured and published data of inductors having different geometric …

The effective trace resistance of a multiturn spiral inductor operating at high frequencies is
known to increase dramatically above its dc value, due to proximity effect or current …

An efficient modeling technique and a novel CAD tool for the accurate prediction of the
performance of integrated inductors and transformers is presented. This generic and …

The structure of a miniature three-dimensional (3-D) inductor is presented in this paper. The
proposed miniature 3-D inductors have been fabricated in a standard digital 0.35-/spl mu/m …

A 900 MHz low-noise amplifier (LNA) utilizing three monolithic transformers to implement on-
chip tuning networks and requiring no external components has been integrated in 2.88 …