A Ferroelectric Capacitor Macromodel and Parameterization Algorithm for Spice Simulation

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 1994, Pages 360-369

  Dunn, Douglas E ^a  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CAPACITOR STORAGE; CAPACITORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ELECTRIC CHARGE; ELECTRIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; SWITCHING; VLSI CIRCUITS;

COMPACT EQUIVALENT CIRCUIT MODEL; FERROELECTRIC CAPACITOR; MACROMODEL; PARAMETERIZATION ALGORITHM; SPICE SIMULATION;

FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS;

EID: 0028438589     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.285471     Document Type: Article

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