Surface micromachined arch-shape on-chip 3-D solenoid inductors for high-frequency applications

Nimit Chomnawang; Jeong Bong Lee; Wendell Alan Davis

doi:10.1117/1.1610475

1 October 2003 Surface micromachined arch-shape on-chip 3-D solenoid inductors for high-frequency applications

Nimit Chomnawang, Jeong Bong Lee, Wendell Alan Davis

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Journal of Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS, Vol. 2, Issue 4, (October 2003). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.1610475

Abstract

We present the design, fabrication, and characterization of surface micromachined on-chip 3-D air-core arch-shape solenoid microinductors. Combinations of unique surface micromachining fabrication process techniques, such as deformation of polymeric sacrifical molds and conformal electrodeposition of photoresist molds on nonplanar sacrificial polymer mounds, are utilized. An air gap inserted between the inductor's body and the substrate is used to reduce the degradations of high-frequency inductor performances. Fabricated inductors are characterized and modeled at high frequencies from S-parameter measurements. ABCD parameters, derived from measured S parameters, are translated into a simplified physical π model. The resulting 2-, 3-, and 5-turn arch-shape suspended air-core solenoid inductors have inductances between 0.62 to 0.79 nH, peak quality (Q) factors between 15.42 to 17 at peak-Q frequencies between 4.7 to 7.0 GHz, and self-resonant frequencies between 47.6 to 88.6 GHz.

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Nimit Chomnawang, Jeong Bong Lee, and Wendell Alan Davis "Surface micromachined arch-shape on-chip 3-D solenoid inductors for high-frequency applications," Journal of Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS 2(4), (1 October 2003). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.1610475

Published: 1 October 2003

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