• DocumentCode
    1745725
  • Title

    Effect of a ground shield of a silicon on-chip spiral inductor

  • Author

    Murata, Koji ; Hosaka, Takashi ; Sugimoto, Yasuhiro

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Chuo Univ., Tokyo, Japan
  • fYear
    2000
  • fDate
    2000
  • Firstpage
    177
  • Lastpage
    180
  • Abstract
    This paper proposes a new layout for a silicon on-chip spiral inductor and analyzes the effectiveness of a ground shield that is considered to enhance the quality factor of a spiral inductor on a silicon chip. The effective series resistance becomes low when a ground shield is placed under a spiral inductor. Furthermore, a spiral inductor with a surrounding ground shield (SGS) does not significantly improve the quality factor, but a spiral inductor with a patterned ground shield (PGS) may do so
  • Keywords
    MMIC; Q-factor; UHF integrated circuits; electromagnetic shielding; elemental semiconductors; inductors; integrated circuit layout; silicon; RFICs; Si; Si on-chip spiral inductor; Si substrate; effective series resistance; inductor ground shield; inductor layout; patterned ground shield; quality factor; surrounding ground shield; Boolean functions; Data structures; Inductors; Silicon; Spirals;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Microwave Conference, 2000 Asia-Pacific
  • Conference_Location
    Sydney, NSW
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-6435-X
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/APMC.2000.925754
  • Filename
    925754