DocumentCode
1124002
Title
Equivalent circuit for broadband modelling of on-chip spiral inductors up to millimetre-wave frequencies
Author
Horng, T.S. ; Jau, J.-K. ; Tsai, Y.-S.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Sun Yat-Sen Univ., Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Volume
41
Issue
15
fYear
2005
fDate
7/21/2005 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
838
Lastpage
840
Abstract
A single-stage expandable equivalent circuit is proposed to model an on-chip spiral inductor up to several times its first self-resonant frequency. The equivalent circuit adopts a modified T-section network configuration to achieve an extremely large bandwidth. The modelled results for a series of round spiral inductors fabricated with different turn numbers on InGaAs substrate demonstrate good agreement with measured results over a measurement frequency range up to 50 GHz.
Keywords
III-V semiconductors; equivalent circuits; gallium arsenide; indium compounds; inductors; integrated circuit modelling; millimetre wave integrated circuits; radiofrequency integrated circuits; 0 to 50 GHz; InGaAs; RFIC; broadband modelling; equivalent circuit; millimeter wave frequencies; modified T-section network configuration; on-chip spiral inductors; radio-frequency integrated circuits; self-resonant frequency;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Electronics Letters
Publisher
iet
ISSN
0013-5194
Type
jour
DOI
10.1049/el:20051395
Filename
1487737
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