On-chip electrostatic discharge protection for CMOS gas sensor systems-on-a-chip (SoC)

Microelectronics Reliability

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1285-1294

  Salcedo, Javier A ^a   Liou, Juin J ^a   Afridi, Muhammad Y ^b   Hefner Jr , Allen R ^b  

^a University of Central Florida   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL SENSORS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTROSTATICS; LEAKAGE CURRENTS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; MICROMACHINING; THYRISTORS;

ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGE (ESD); EMBEDDED SENSOR (ES); HUMAN BODY MODEL (HBM); SYSTEM-ON-A-CHIP (SOC);

ELECTRIC DISCHARGES;

EID: 33746189562     PISSN: 00262714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.microrel.2005.12.002     Document Type: Article

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