Low-Power Negative Inductance Integrated Circuits for GHz Applications

Author

Saadat, Soheil ; Aghasi, Hamidreza ; Afshari, Ehsan ; Mosallaei, Hossein

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Northeastern Univ., Boston, MA, USA

Volume

25

Issue

2

fYear

2015

fDate

Feb. 2015

Firstpage

118

Lastpage

120

Abstract

A negative impedance converter (NIC) design is proposed to obtain a negative inductance of L=-1 nH operating from 0.1 to 6 GHz. The design is based on Linvill´s open circuit stable topology, and it is implemented by 65 nm CMOS process to achieve a low power negative inductance integrated circuit. The NIC circuit is attached to a 1.2 V dc power supply and consumes 5 mW of power. The simulation and theoretical results are compared with the measurement, and good agreements are obtained.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; UHF integrated circuits; field effect MMIC; integrated circuit design; low-power electronics; negative impedance convertors; CMOS process; Linvill´s open circuit stable topology; NIC design; frequency 0.1 GHz to 6 GHz; low-power negative inductance integrated circuits; negative impedance converter design; power 5 mW; size 65 nm; voltage 1.2 V; Antennas; Impedance; Inductance; Inductors; Integrated circuit modeling; Transistors; Wireless communication; Active circuits; antenna; impedance matching; metamaterial; metasurface; negative impedance converter; non-foster circuits;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1531-1309

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LMWC.2014.2382631

Filename

7004068