Catastrophic latchup in a CMOS operational amplifier

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 2475-2480

  Irom, Farokh ^a   Miyahira, Tetsuo F ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amplifier; Cyclotron; Heavy ion; Latchup; LTC2052; SEE

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); HEAVY IONS; IONS; OPTICAL IMAGE STORAGE;

CYCLOTRON; LATCHUP; LTC2052; SEE;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 33144472876     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2005.860676     Document Type: Conference Paper

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