{"title":"RF MEMs tunable inductor using bimorph microactuators","authors":"I. Zine-El-Abidine, M. Okoniewski, J. McRory","doi":"10.1109/ICMENS.2005.105","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Inductors play an important role in wireless front-end circuitry. Tunable inductors can provide more flexibility in optimizing RF devices such as filters and VCOs. A tunable inductor using a process fully compatible with CMOS has been constructed. The tuning range achieved was 30%.","PeriodicalId":185824,"journal":{"name":"2005 International Conference on MEMS,NANO and Smart Systems","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2005-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"15","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2005 International Conference on MEMS,NANO and Smart Systems","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMENS.2005.105","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Inductors play an important role in wireless front-end circuitry. Tunable inductors can provide more flexibility in optimizing RF devices such as filters and VCOs. A tunable inductor using a process fully compatible with CMOS has been constructed. The tuning range achieved was 30%.