Artificial bee colony technique for a study of the influence of impact of metal thickness on the factor of quality-Q in integrated square spiral inductors

Abstract

The goal of this present paper is to investigate the impact of metal thickness on the factor of quality-Q in integrated square spiral inductor, using an efficient application of the Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) algorithm. The inductors were optimized at 2.4 GHz to determinate theirs major geometrical dimensions and theirs number of turns, for uses in radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs). The results are validated by simulation using an electromagnetic simulator (ADS Momentum). Using matlab software, the study on the influence of the impact of metal thickness, on the quality of factor-Q of spiral inductors, is shown.