• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers B
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• v.55 no.10
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• pp.534-539
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• 2006

An integrated inductor using the low-temperature co-fired ceramics(LTCC) technology for low-power electronics was fabricated. In the inductor NiZn ferrite sheet$({\mu}_r=230)$, was embedded to increase inductance. The inductor has Ag spiral coil with 14 turns$(7turns{\times}2layers)$, a dimension of 0.6mm in width, 10um in thickness, and 0.15mm pitch. To evaluate the inductance, including the parasitic resistance, the fabricated inductor was calculated and measured. It was confirmed that calculated values were very close to the measured values. Finally as an application of the LTCC integrated inductor to low power electronic circuits, a LTCC boost DC/DC converter with 1W output power and up to 0.5MHz switching frequency using the inductor fabricated was developed.

• Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.179-188
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• 1996

This paper discussed on the impedance analysis of the planar air core inductors having spiral pattern and meander pattern. The width and distance of conductor, and number of turns were varied. As the width of conductor increased, both resistance and inductance decreased and there existed an maximum value in Q for spiral pattern. But Q increased with increasing width of conductor in meander pattern. In spiral pattern, there existed a distance between conductors where inductance became constant and Q became maximum, while the distance between conductors must be as large as possible to obtain large Q because the mutual inductance of meander pattern inductor has negative sign due to opposite current direction at adjacent conductor. Resistance and inductance increased with increasing the number of turns. There existed maximum Q at certain number of turns in spiral pattern. But Q became small in the meander pattern because increase of resistance was larger than increase of inductance with increasing number of turns.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics B
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• v.32B no.10
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• pp.1286-1293
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• 1995

Modified equivalent lumped element model for square spiral inductors have been derived. This model shows more accurate analysis performance than conventional models, and gives reliable design parameters. And this model is made through comparison among distributed multiple coupled line, numerical analysis and experimental data.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.325-331
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• 2003

In this paper, we designed a spiral inductor and voltage controlled oscillator with the negative resistor for the bluetooth receiver by using 0.25$\mu\textrm{m}$ 1-poly 5-metal CMOS n-well process. The proposed inductor, which applies multi layer metal structure, is a structure that decreases resistance value by increasing he metal thickness. As the resistance value decreases, the quality factor Q has improved. Also, voltage-controlled oscillator is designed applying 1 port negative resistance, and changes its oscillating frequency by varying outside capacitor values. The simulation results show that oscillating frequency is 2.33~2.58GHz changing from 2pF to 14pF, and the oscillator has oscillating power over 0dBm.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• v.4 no.3
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• pp.158-162
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• 2015

A low phase noise CMOS voltage controlled oscillator(VCO) for multi-band/multi-standard RF Transceivers is presented. For both wide tunability and low phase noise characteristics, Hybrid inductor which uses both bondwire inductor and planar spiral inductor in the same area, is proposed. This approach reduces inductance variation and presents high quality factor without custom-designed single-turn inductor occupying large area, which improves phase noise and tuning range characteristics without additional area loss. An LC VCO is designed in a 0.13um CMOS technology to demonstrate the hybrid inductor concept. The measured phase noise is -121dBc/Hz at 400KHz offset and -142dBc/Hz at 3MHz offset from a 900MHz carrier frequency after divider. The tuning range of about 28%(3.15 to 4.18GHz) is measured. The VCO consumes 7.5mA from 1.3V supply and meets the requirements for GSM/EDGE and WCDMA standard.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2006.07b
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• pp.939-940
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• 2006

An integrated inductor using the low-temperature co-fired ceramics(LTCC ) technology for low-power electronics was fabricated. In the inductor NiZn ferrite sheet(${\mu}_r=230$), was embedded to increase inductance. The inductor has Ag spiral coil with 14 turns($7turns{\times}2layers$), a dimension of 0.6mm in width, 10um in thickness, and 0.15mm pitch. To evaluate the inductance, including the parasitic resistance, the fabricated inductor was calculated and measured. It was confirmed that calculated values were very close to the measured values. Finally as an application of the LTCC integrated inductor to low power electronic circuits, a LTCC buck DC/DC converter with 1W output power and up to 0.5MHz switching frequency using the inductor fabricated was develop.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.11-15
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• 2011

A Differential line inductor is proposed for a differential power amplifier. The proposed differential line inductor is composed of two conventional line inductors rearranged to make the current direction of the two line inductors identical. The proposed line inductor is simulated with a 2.5-D and a 3-D EM simulator to verify its feasibility with the substrate information in a 0.18-${\mu}m$ RF CMOS process. The inductances of various line inductors implemented with printed circuit boards were measured. The feasibility of the proposed line inductor was successfully demonstrated.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers B
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• v.53 no.11
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• pp.680-686
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• 2004

An integrated inductor using the low temperature cofiring ceramics(LTCC) technology was fabricated. The inductor has Ag circular spiral coil with 16 turns (2-turn x 8-layer) and has a dimension of 11.52mm diameter and 0.71mm thick. For the fabricated inductor, calculation method of inductance was given and it is confirmed that the calculated value is very close to the measured one. Finally as an application of the LTCC integrated inductor to low power electronic circuits, a LTCC buck DC/DC converter with 1.32W output power and 1MHz switching frequency using the inductor fabricated was developed. For the converter the maximum efficiency of about 81% was obtained.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2001.04a
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• pp.129-131
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• 2001

This paper represents the method is to design thin film spiral type inductor using the analytic method and to evaluate the characteristics of the high frequency inductors using HFSS simulation program. The magnetic circuit of the thin film inductor can be successfully simulated by the HFSS.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.12 no.9
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• pp.4101-4106
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• 2011

In this study, we propose that the structures of 2-layer spiral planar inductors have a lower spiral coil and via increasing inductance in limited possession are and confirm the frequency characteristics. The structures of inductors have Si thickness of $300{\mu}m$, $SiO_2$ thickness of $7{\mu}m$. The width of Cu coils and the space between segments have $20{\mu}m$, respectively. The number of turns of coils have 3. The performance of spiral planar inductors was simulated to frequency characteristics for inductance, quality-factor, SRF(Self- Resonance Frequency) using HFSS. The 2-layer spiral planar inductors have inductance of 3.2nH over the frequency range of 0.8 to 1.8 GHz, quality-factor of maximum 8.2 at 2.5 GHz, SRF of 5.8 GHz. Otherwise, 1-layer spiral planar inductors have inductance of 1.5nH over the frequency range of 0.8 to 1.8 GHz, quality-factor of maximum 18 at 8 GHz, SRF of 19.2 GHz.