A comprehensive review of the electrical performance of passive transformers fabricated in
silicon IC technology is presented. Two types of transformer construction are considered in …

The availability of affordable and portable depth sensors has made scanning objects and
people simpler than ever. However, dealing with occlusions and missing parts is still a …

We present several new simple and accurate expressions for the DC inductance of square,
hexagonal, octagonal, and circular spiral inductors. We evaluate the accuracy of our …

Inductors are primary elements in many radio frequency circuitries and devices. This review
gives a comprehensive survey on the developments and performances of fixed and variable …

Underlying physical mechanisms controlling the noise properties of oscillators are studied.
This treatment shows the importance of inductance selection for oscillator noise …

In this paper, we compare the performance of the newly introduced distributed active
transformer (DAT) structure to that of conventional on-chip impedance-transformations …

This review of design principles for implementation of a spiral inductor in a silicon integrated
circuit fabrication process summarizes prior art in this field. In addition, a fast and physics …

A wide-band physical and scalable 2-π equivalent circuit model for on-chip spiral inductors
is developed. Based on physical derivation and circuit theory, closed-form formulas are …

A modification of stacked spiral inductors increases the self-resonance frequency by 100%
with no additional processing steps, yielding values of 5 to 266 nH and self-resonance …

The effective trace resistance of a multiturn spiral inductor operating at high frequencies is
known to increase dramatically above its dc value, due to proximity effect or current …