Design and Test of Integrated Inductors for RF Applications

Dedication. - List of Figures. - List of Tables. - List of Abbreviations. - Preface. -
1: Introduction. 1. Conventional IC fabrication technologies. 2. Keys to progress in RF transceiver design: High Q integrated inductors. 3. The challenge of integrating high quality inductors. 4. Structure of the book. - 2: Generalconsiderations. 1. Ways of of integrating an inductor. 2. Spiral inductors on silicon based technologies. - 3: Inductor' s test andcharacterization. 1. On wafer measuring equipment. 2. Measuring accuracy and repeatability. 3. Measuring configuration: 1-port versus 2-port configuration. 4. Test fixture design. 5. De-embedding techniques. 6. Pi model inductor characterization. - 4:Influence of the geometric parameters on the inductor' s performance:Design rules. 1. Problem description. 2. Analytical study and simulations. 3. Empirical study. 4. Design considerations. - 5:Inductor' s design flow. 1. Generation phase. 2. Filtering phase. 3. Performance estimation phase. 4. Verification phase. - Appendix. - References. - Index.