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  • A Study of Striped Inductor for K- and Ka-Band Voltage-Controlled Oscillators Open Access

    Nobuyuki ITOH  Hiroki TSUJI  Yuka ITANO  Takayuki MORISHITA  Kiyotaka KOMOKU  Sadayuki YOSHITOMI  

     
    INVITED PAPER

      Vol:
    E99-C No:6
      Page(s):
    614-622

    A striped inductor and its utilization of a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) are studied with the aim of suppressing phase noise degradation in K- and Ka-bands. The proposed striped inductor exhibits reduced series resistance in the high frequency region by increasing the cross-sectional peripheral length, as with the Litz wire, and the VCO of the striped inductor simultaneously exhibits a lower phase noise than that of the conventional inductor. Striped and conventional inductors and VCOs are designed and fabricated, and their use of K- and Ka-bands is measured. Results show that the Q factor and corner frequency of the striped inductor are approximately 1.3 and 1.6 times higher, respectively, than that of the conventional inductor. Moreover, the 1-MHz-offset phase noise of the striped inductor's VCO in the K- and Ka-bands was approximately 3.5 dB lower than that of the conventional inductor. In this study, a 65-nm standard CMOS process was used.