• DocumentCode
    1293062
  • Title

    Optimizing the design of spiral inductors on silicon

  • Author

    Post, J.E.

  • Author_Institution
    Space, Telecommun. & Radiosci. Lab., Stanford Univ., CA, USA
  • Volume
    47
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    2000
  • fDate
    1/1/2000 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    15
  • Lastpage
    17
  • Abstract
    Analysis of a physical model for spiral inductors on silicon leads to the conductor trace width that maximizes the quality factor at a given frequency. The simplicity of the physical model enables a computational procedure for efficiently optimizing the inductor quality factor and self-resonant frequency
  • Keywords
    Q-factor; circuit optimisation; conductors (electric); elemental semiconductors; inductors; integrated circuit design; integrated circuit modelling; silicon; Si; computational procedure; conductor trace width; physical model; quality factor; self-resonant frequency; spiral inductors; Capacitance; Conductors; Design optimization; Frequency; Inductors; Q factor; Radiofrequency integrated circuits; Silicon; Spirals; Substrates;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Circuits and Systems II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1057-7130
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/82.818889
  • Filename
    818889