Title of article
Design of Magnetic RF Inductor in CMOS
Author/Authors
Zhan, Jing Tsinghua University - Institute of Microelectronics - Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology, China , Ren, Tianling Tsinghua University - Institute of Microelectronics - Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology, China , Yang, Chen Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology - State Key Laboratory of Transducer Technology, China , Yang, Yi Tsinghua University - Institute of Microelectronics - Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology, China , Liu, Litian Tsinghua University - Institute of Microelectronics - Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology, China , Wang, Albert Tsinghua University - Institute of Microelectronics - Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology, China
From page
78
To page
83
Abstract
Traditional planar inductors in Radio Frequency (RF) Integrated Circuits (ICs) are plagued by large areas, low quality, and low frequencies. This paper describes a magnetic-based CMOS-compatible RF inductor. Magnetic-core inductors with various ferrite-filled structures, spiral structures, and magnetic material permeabilities were simulated to show that this inductor greatly improves the inductance by up to 97% and quality factor by 18.6% over a multi-GHz frequency range. The results indicate that the inductor is a very promising and viable solution to realize miniature, high quality, and high frequency on-chip inductors for high-end RF ICs.
Keywords
inductor , ferrite , magnetic , cored , Radio Frequency (RF) , Integrated Circuits (ICs)
Journal title
Tsinghua Science and Technology
Journal title
Tsinghua Science and Technology
Record number
2535447
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