A novel crosstalk isolation structure for bulk CMOS power 1C's

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1580-1586

  Chan, Wilson W T ^a   Sin, Johnny K O ^a   Simon Wong, S ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

CMOS latchup; Crosstalk; LDMOS; LIGBT; Power integrated circuit (PIC)

Indexed keywords

CROSSTALK; DESIGN; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; TECHNOLOGY;

CMOS LATCHUP;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 0032124152     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/16.701492     Document Type: Article

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