Abstract
Fully CMOS-compatible, highly suspended spiral inductors have been designed and fabricated on standard silicon substrate (1∼30 Ω·cm in resistivity) by surface micromachining technology (no substrate etch involved). The RF characteristics of the fabricated inductors have been measured and their equivalent circuit parameters have been extracted using a conventional lumped-element model. We have achieved a high peak Q-factor of 70 at 6 GHz with inductance of 1.38 nH (at 1 GHz) and a self-resonant frequency of over 20 GHz. To the best of our knowledge, this is the highest Q-factor ever reported on standard silicon substrate. This work has demonstrated that the proposed microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) inductors can be a viable technology option to meet the today's strong demands on high-Q on-chip inductors for multi-GHz silicon RF ICs.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 591-593 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | IEEE Electron Device Letters |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue number | 10 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2002 Oct |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Manuscript received June 19, 2002. This work was supported by a National Research Laboratory Grant from The Ministry of Science and Technology, Korea. The review of this letter was arranged by Editor S. Kawamura.
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering