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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MICROWAVE THEORY AND TECHNIQUES, VOL. 57, NO. 8, AUGUST 2009 1915 CMOS Active Inductor Linearity Improvement Using Feed-Forward Current Source Technique Chun-Lee Ler, Student Member, IEEE, Abu Khari Bin A’ain, Member, IEEE, and Albert Victor Kordesch, Senior Member, IEEE Abstract—MOSFET drain current second-order nonlinearity Active inductor nonlinear behavior can be characterized by has a significant impact on the linearity of current regulated two different methods, total harmonic distortion (THD) and CMOS active inductors. It tends to compress MOSFET transcon- 1-dB inductance compression [13]. THD describes ductance  by generating excess dc current   in the the ratio of total unwanted harmonic current to fundamental channel, which is a function of incoming input signal amplitude. This generated excess dc current can change the original dc oper- current when a fundamental ac input signal has been injected ating point of the current regulated CMOS active inductor, and into the active inductor. THD can be defined as follows: thus, influence the inductance. Unfortunately, MOSFET drain current second-order nonlinearity contributes more to MOSFET compression than MOSFET drain current third-order non- (1) linearity. In this paper, a new technique known as feed-forward current source (FFCS) has been proposed to improve the linearity of the active inductor. The proposed FFCS technique makes use of where and are fund