Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10364243 | Microelectronics Journal | 2005 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
This paper presents and discusses the fabrication and the performance of RF circular spiral inductors on silicon. The substrate materials underneath the inductor coil are removed by wet etching process. In the fabrication process, fine polishing of the photoresist is used to simplify the processes and ensure the seed layer and the pillars contact perfectly, and dry etching technique is used to remove the seed layer. The results show that Q-factor of the novel inductor is greatly improved by removing the silicon underneath the inductor coil. The spiral inductor for line width of 50 μm has a peak Q-factor of 17 at frequency of 1 GHz. The inductance is about 3.2 nH in the frequency range of 0.05-3 GHz and the resonance frequency of the inductors is about 6 GHz. If the strip is widened to 80 μm, the peak Q-factor of the inductor reduces to about 10 and the inductance is 1.5 nH in the same frequency range.
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Authors
Xi-Ning Wang, Xiao-Lin Zhao, Yong Zhou, Xu-Han Dai, Bing-Chu Cai,