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This paper presents the designs of the monolithic square ring resonators based on the composite right/left-handed (CRLH) transmission line (TL) operated in left-handed slow-wave region. The proposed resonator is fully realized by only using CRLH cells, and its design equation is derived based on the left-handed guiding properties, indicating how the frequency-dependent slow-wave factor affecting the resonant modes inside the ring resonator. The quality-factor (Q-factor), which is theoretically extracted from the complex propagation constant of the proposed CMOS LH-TL, exceeds 25 from 386 GHz to 486 GHz. Two left-handed (LH) ring resonators, which consist of eight and sixteen unit cells, are fabricated in the standard 0.13 μm 1P8M CMOS foundry. From 325 GHz to 500 GHz, the on-wafer measured results closely agree with the theoretical predictions, showing that the 8-cell LH resonator has two resonating frequencies at 362 GHz and 468 GHz with the unload Q-factors of 14.2 and 21.2, respectively. The 16-cell LH resonator has Q-factors of 17.6 and 22.3 at the resonating frequencies at 389 GHz and 482 GHz. © 2016 IEEE.
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Year: 2016
Language: English
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