Monolithic Inductors for Silicon Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits
Mina Danesh
Master of Applied Science
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Toronto
1999
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1 - INTRODUCTION
1.1 Silicon Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits
1.2 Microwave Monolithic Inductors
1.3 Purpose and Organization of this Thesis
Chapter 2 - SILICON MICROSTRIP STRUCTURE
CHARACTERISTICS
2.1 Wave Propagation Modes
2.2 Lumped Circuit Modeling
2.3 Inductor Quality Factor
2.4 Parameter Extraction Methods
2.5 Microstrip Line Simulation and Modeling
Chapter 3 - SPIRAL INDUCTOR MODELING
3.1 Motivation
3.2 Modeling Procedure
3.3 Test Structures
3.4 Results and Discussion
Chapter 4 - SYMMETRIC INDUCTORS
FOR DIFFERENTIAL CIRCUITS
4.1 Motivation
4.2 Review of Q Enhancement Techniques
4.3 Review of Inductor Chip Area Reduction
4.4 Proposed Method
4.5 One-Port Excitation Theoretical Analysis
4.6 Test Structures
4.7 Symmetric Inductor Modeling
4.8 Measurement Procedure
4.9 Results
4.10 Application
Chapter 5 - CONCLUSIONS
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