A novel geometry for circular series connected multilevel inductors for CMOS RF integrated circuits

Title:	A novel geometry for circular series connected multilevel inductors for CMOS RF integrated circuits
Authors:	Aguilera, Jaime Meléndez, Juan Berenguer, Roc Sendra, José Ramón Hernández Ballester, Antonio Del Pino, Javier
UNESCO Clasification:	3307 Tecnología electrónica
Keywords:	Inductors UHF integrated circuits Microwave FET integrated circuits MMICs CMOS analog integrated circuits, et al
Issue Date:	2002
Publisher:	0018-9383
Journal:	IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices
Abstract:	The scope of this brief is to introduce a novel geometry for circular series connected multilevel inductors. The idea is to improve the overlapping of the different metal layers that form the integrated inductor to maximize the magnetic flux shared by them and so the inductance. The performance of this new geometry has been compared with the conventional one, using Agilent HFSS field solver. After that, two multilevel inductors using this new geometry have been fabricated in a standard 0.6 μm three-metal CMOS process and measured.
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10553/47603
ISSN:	0018-9383
DOI:	10.1109/TED.2002.1003756
Source:	IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices[ISSN 0018-9383],v. 49, p. 1084-1086
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