• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2002.07a
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• pp.345-348
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• 2002

A complementary VHF CMOS active inductor is described. The proposed circuit employs 'p-type' and 'n-type' active inductor to obtain enlarged signal handling ability. Under the same inductance, Q value, and power consumption, the proposed circuit shows more than 12-㏈ improvement in dynamic range while maintaining high-frequency operation. Further enhancement is obtained by using a fully differential floating inductor structure. A 1-㎓ 4$\^$th/-order coupled-resonator filter is designed to demonstrate the potential of the proposed active inductor.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.59 no.2
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• pp.471-475
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• 2010

This paper presents a frequency synthesizer using low voltage active inductor VCO(Voltage Controlled Oscillator). The low voltage active inductor VCO with feedback resistor increases its equivalent inductance and the quality-factor(Q). Under certain conditions, the low voltage active inductor with feedback resistor generates a negative resistance at the input. In this paper, the conditions for negative resistance are obtained by small signal analysis. The designed low voltage active inductor VCO covers a frequency band between 1059MHz and 1223MHz. The measured phase noise at 1.178GHz is -81.8dBc/Hz at 1MHz offset.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.45 no.2
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• pp.125-129
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• 2008

A low-voltage active CMOS inductor approach, which can improve the quality-factor(Q), is proposed in this paper. A low-voltage active inductor circuit topology with a feedback resistance is proposed, which can substantially improve its equivalent inductance and quality-factor(Q). This proposed low-voltage active inductor with a feedback resistance was simulated by ADS(Agilent) using 0.18um standard CMOS technology. Simulation showed that the designed active inductor had a maximum quality-factor(Q) of 3000 with a 1.5nH inductance at 4GHz

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.311-320
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• 2008

In this paper, a new variable active inductor using a conventional grounded active inductor with feedback variable LC-resonator is proposed. The grounded active inductor is realized by the gyrator-C topology and the variable LC-resonator is realized by the low-Q spiral inductor and varactor. This variable LC-resonator can compensate the degradation of Q-factor due to parasitic capacitance of a transistor, and the frequency range with high Q-factor is adjustable by resonance frequency adjustment of LC-resonator. The fabricated variable active inductor with Magnachip $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS process shows that high-Q frequency range can be adjusted according to varactor control voltage from 4.66 GHz to 5.45 GHz and Q-factor is higher than 50 in the operating frequency ranges. The measured inductance at 4.9GHz can be controlled from 4.12 nH to 5.97 nH by control voltage.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.7 no.8
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• pp.1591-1597
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• 2003

In this paper, Active Resonator Oscillator using active inductor and active capacitor with HEMTs(agilent ATF­34143) is designed and fabricated. Active inductor with ­25$\Omega$ and 2.4nH in 5.5GHz frequency band and Active capacitor with ­14$\Omega$ and 0.35pF is designed. Active Resonator Oscillator for LO in ISM band(5.8GHz) is designed with active inductor and active capacitor. Active Resonator Oscillator has been simulated by Agilent ADS 2002C. Active Resonator oscillator implemented on the substrate which has the relative dielectric constant of 3.38, the height of 0.508mm, and metal thickness of 0.018mm. This Active Resonator Oscillator shows the oscillation frequency of 5.68GHz with the output power of ­3.6㏈m and phase noise of ­81㏈c/Hz at the offset frequency of 100KHz.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.198-206
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• 2013

This paper presents a wide band, fine-resolution digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) with an on-chip 3-D solenoid inductor using the 0.13 ${\mu}m$ digital CMOS process. The on-chip solenoid inductor is vertically constructed by using Metal and Via layers with a horizontal scalability. Compared to a spiral inductor, it has the advantage of occupying a small area and this is due to its 3-D structure. To control the frequency of the DCO, active capacitor and active inductor are tuned digitally. To cover the wide tuning range, a three-step coarse tuning scheme is used. In addition, the DCO gain needs to be calibrated digitally to compensate for gain variations. The DCO with solenoid inductor is fabricated in 0.13 ${\mu}m$ process and the die area of the solenoid inductor is 0.013 $mm^2$. The DCO tuning range is about 54 % at 4.1 GHz, and the power consumption is 6.6 mW from a 1.2 V supply voltage. An effective frequency resolution is 0.14 kHz. The measured phase noise of the DCO output at 5.195 GHz is -110.61 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.64 no.1
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• pp.143-148
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• 2015

In this paper a new method is proposed for realizing active floating inductors from voltage differencing transconductance amplifier(VDTA) which is being studied nowadays. This proposed method employs only one VDTA and one transconductance for designing an active inductor from a passive floating inductor and implementing it to integrated circuits. The number of CMOS transistors can be considerably reduced from 6~18 as 1~3 gm circuits can be eliminated and even without R the design can be made, which can help in reducing the size of the circuit and power consumption. The proposed VDTA floating inductor was successfully used in constructing 1 MHz second order biquad active bandpass filter and bandwidth could be adjusted from 77kHz~1.59MHz by the changes made in gm from 6uS~20uS.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.59 no.6
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• pp.1064-1069
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• 2010

Active clamp forward converter provides zero voltage switching, low voltage stress and wide input voltage range. The design technique leads to getting a higher efficiency under high switching frequency and optimal operating range. It is designed for notebook computer adapter with free input voltage and 19.5V/120W output ratings. The efficiency is measured to more than 90%. One of the most important circuit parts is the filter inductor besides the transformer in active clamp forward converter. In this paper, the process of inductor design is listed optimally.

• 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.08a
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• pp.89-92
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• 2008

CMOS 기반의 고주파 집적회로에서는 높은 이득과 출력을 얻기 위하여 인덕터와 같은 수동소자를 사용한다. 그러나 수동소자를 사용하게 되면 넓은 면적을 차지하기 때문에 회로의 크기를 증가시키는 단점을 갖는다. 본 논문에서는 PMOS 를 기반으로 구현한 active inductor 를 적용하여 회로의 면적을 줄일 수 있으며, 기존의 주파수 변환기와 동등한 선형 특성을 갖는 상향 주파수 변환기를 설계하였다. 인덕터를 적용한 상향 주파수 변환기의 OIP3 ($3^{rd}$ Output Intercept Point)는 1.3 dBm 을 가지며, 제안한 상향 주파수 변환기의 OIP3 는 0.8 dBm 으로 동등한 선형 특성을 보이며, layout 상에서 회로의 면적을 40 % 이상 감소하는 특성의 선형 송신기용 주파수 변환기를 설계 분석하였다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1989.11a
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• pp.180-185
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• 1989

In the current source type active power filter, the DC current source is implemented using an inductor with large inductance by maintaining the inductor current constantly. In this case, to compensate the loss of the switching devices of the power converter and the inductor, some real power should be supplied to the filter from the source. This process is analyzed through the equivalent circuit which expresses the loss of the switching devices and the inductor with the equivalent resistor R. This work discusses the validation of this DC side equivalent circuit and points out the problems, through the experiments using the experimental active power filter with 220V, 10KVA ratings, and suggests a more accurate equivalent circuit which puts the saturation voltage of the power transistors and the threshold voltage of the diodes into consideration.