Ladder-shaped network for ESD protection of millimetre-wave CMOS ICs

Electronics Letters

Volumn 45, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 795-797

  Park, J D ^a   Niknejad, A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

90NM CMOS; ADVANCED CMOS; CMOS TECHNOLOGY; CURRENT DISTRIBUTION; ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGE PROTECTION; ESD PROTECTION; LOW NOISEAMPLIFIER; MATCHING CIRCUIT; METAL LAYER; NORMAL OPERATIONS; SHORTED STUBS; SHUNT STUBS;

AUDIO FREQUENCY AMPLIFIERS; BANDPASS FILTERS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGE; IMAGE SENSORS; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; LADDERS; SHEET METAL;

ELECTROSTATIC DEVICES;

EID: 68549127045     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el.2009.0522     Document Type: Article

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