CMOS temperature sensors based on thermal diffusion

15th International Workshop on Thermal Investigations of ICs and Systems, THERMINIC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 140-143

  Van Vroonhoven, Caspar ^a   Kashmiri, Mahdi ^a   Makinwa, Kofi ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CMOS TECHNOLOGY; MILITARY TEMPERATURE; ON CHIPS; PROOF OF CONCEPT; REPRODUCIBILITIES; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; TEMPERATURE SENSORS; THERMAL DIFFUSIVITY;

THERMAL DIFFUSION;

EID: 71749113991     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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