Abstract
Oxidized porous silicon/porous silicon (OPS/PS) has been introduced as a low-loss substrate for an on-chip LC low-pass filter (LPF). The LPF is optimally designed with midband insertion loss (MIL) of -4.5dB and nominal cutoff frequency at 900MHz. The fabrication of the LPF based OPS/PS is in prevailing CMOS process. Experiments show that the performance of the LPF has been greatly improved with MIL of -4.54dB that meets the designed value quite well. And in comparison with MIL of LPF on SiO2/Si (8 Ω · cm), MIL with the proposed interlayer is lowered by 8dB, which implies that the microwave loss resulting from the substrate part can be substantially suppressed by introducing OPS/PS.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 121 |
| Pages (from-to) | 523-526 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering |
| Volume | 5774 |
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| State | Published - 2005 |
| Event | Fifth International Conference on Thin Film Physics and Applications - Shanghai, China Duration: 31 May 2004 → 2 Jun 2004 |
Keywords
- Low Pass Filter (LPF)
- On-chip Inductor
- Oxidized Porous Silicon (OPS)
- Porous Silicon (PS)