Substrate voltage and accumulation-mode MOS varactor capacitance

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1563-1567

  Wartenberg, Scott A ^a   Hauser, John R ^b  

^a BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON   (United States)

^b North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Accumulation mode; Capacitance; Metal oxide semiconductor (MOS); Phase noise; Varactor; Voltage controlled oscillator (VCO)

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; GATES (TRANSISTOR); SUBSTRATES; VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS;

ACCUMULATION MODE; MOS VARACTOR; PHASE NOISE;

VARACTORS;

EID: 23944476207     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2005.850953     Document Type: Article

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