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Spiral inductors are commonly used in radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) to act as series or shunt elements in the matching, tank or choke circuits. The quality factor (Q) is among the most important parameters in order to evaluate an inductor’s performance. Unfortunately, quality factor and frequency limitations limit RF front-end circuitry to a large number of discrete passive components and make RF front-end module integration difficult. High-quality-factor inductor design and fabrication remains a challenge for applications that depend on passive components performance, e.g. low phase-noise voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO), power amplifier (PA), low noise amplifier (LNA) and double-balanced Gilbert-cell mixers.
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Pour Aryan, N. (2015). Designing Inductors. In: Design and Modeling of Inductors, Capacitors and Coplanar Waveguides at Tens of GHz Frequencies. SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10187-3_2
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