Patterned Ground Shields For Silicon RFICs – Part 3: Which Way Does The Current Really Go?

Everything is so confusing. In Part I of this series, we found that there is something really strange about the current flowing in an Si substrate underneath a spiral inductor. It is flowing perpendicular to the direction of the spiral turns, when we thought it should be flowing parallel to the turns.
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