The design and measurement of a compact narrowband impedance matching network is presented. The device has been realised in hybrid technology: coplanar waveguide transmission lines and surface-mounted components. The experimental results were carried out through two different measurement methods, a traditional approach and a new faster, simpler one giving the same results. They show that complex impedances with magnitudes varying from 6.3 to 1120 Omega can be matched with a 50% bandwidth around the centre firequency.

Metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitors are key components in radio frequency integrated circuits. In this paper, several 0.12 mum-CMOS Cu-Si 3 N 4 -Cu capacitors realized with damascene architecture and whose process allows high-k dielectric compatibility have been designed and characterised from 45 MHz to 40 GHz. Large band equivalent electrical models have been carried out and commented