Recent Advances in On-Chip Silicon-based Passive Components for RF and Millimeter-Wave Applications

In this brief, an overview of recently published works related to on-chip passive components will be given. As the full potential of CMOS-based active devices has almost reached, it is more important to start looking into passive-inspired designs, which have a potential to demonstrate the performance of the silicon-based RF circuits beyond Moore's Law. In particular, design of minimized passive components, reflectionless filters and passive/active co-designs will be summarized.