Title :
Toroidal inductors for integrated radio frequency and microwave circuits
Author :
Suryanarayanan, Jayanthi ; Liu, Wai Y. ; Nath, Jayesh ; Johnson, Brian N. ; Mohammadi, Saeed ; Katehi, Linda P B ; Steer, Michael B.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC, USA
Abstract :
A toroidal inductor has been developed that confines flux and eliminates eddy currents. A printed circuit and micromachined RFIC-compatible implementations of the inductor are presented.
Keywords :
CMOS integrated circuits; MMIC; UHF integrated circuits; inductors; micromachining; radiofrequency integrated circuits; CMOS technology; RFIC-compatible implementations; eddy current elimination; integrated RF circuits; integrated microwave circuits; micromachined implementations; printed circuit implementations; toroidal inductor; Circuits; Conductivity; Eddy currents; Gallium arsenide; Inductance; Inductors; Packaging; Radio frequency; Silicon; Spirals;
Conference_Titel :
Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) Symposium, 2003 IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7694-3
DOI :
10.1109/RFIC.2003.1214020
