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

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

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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.

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics Vol.E99-C No.6 pp.614-622
Publication Date
2016/06/01
Publicized
Online ISSN
1745-1353
DOI
10.1587/transele.E99.C.614
Type of Manuscript
Special Section INVITED PAPER (Special Section on Analog Circuits and Related SoC Integration Technologies)
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Authors

Nobuyuki ITOH
  Okayama Prefectural University
Hiroki TSUJI
  Okayama Prefectural University
Yuka ITANO
  Okayama Prefectural University,Toshiba Corporation
Takayuki MORISHITA
  Okayama Prefectural University
Kiyotaka KOMOKU
  Okayama Prefectural University
Sadayuki YOSHITOMI
  Toshiba Corporation

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