TY - GEN
T1 - Dual SCR with low-and-constant parasitic capacitance for ESD protection in 5-GHz RF integrated circuits
AU - Lin, Chun Yu
AU - Ker, Ming Dou
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Silicon-controlled rectifier (SCR) had been reported with good electrostatic discharge (ESD) robustness and low parasitic capacitance. In this work, SCR devices were investigated to have low and constant capacitance for on-chip ESD protection in RF ICs. The test devices had been verified in a 65-nm fully-silicided CMOS process. The SCR devices can pass 8-kV human-body-model (HBM) ESD tests, and the parasitic capacitance at 5 GHz kept at ∼135 fF with only 3-fF variation as the input voltage swung from VSS to VDD. Thus, the ESD protection design with SCR devices is very suitable for RF ESD applications.
AB - Silicon-controlled rectifier (SCR) had been reported with good electrostatic discharge (ESD) robustness and low parasitic capacitance. In this work, SCR devices were investigated to have low and constant capacitance for on-chip ESD protection in RF ICs. The test devices had been verified in a 65-nm fully-silicided CMOS process. The SCR devices can pass 8-kV human-body-model (HBM) ESD tests, and the parasitic capacitance at 5 GHz kept at ∼135 fF with only 3-fF variation as the input voltage swung from VSS to VDD. Thus, the ESD protection design with SCR devices is very suitable for RF ESD applications.
KW - Electrostatic discharges (ESD)
KW - Radio-frequency integrated circuit (RF IC)
KW - Silicon-controlled rectifier (SCR)
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U2 - 10.1109/ICSICT.2010.5667382
DO - 10.1109/ICSICT.2010.5667382
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:78751479209
SN - 9781424457984
T3 - ICSICT-2010 - 2010 10th IEEE International Conference on Solid-State and Integrated Circuit Technology, Proceedings
SP - 707
EP - 709
BT - ICSICT-2010 - 2010 10th IEEE International Conference on Solid-State and Integrated Circuit Technology, Proceedings
T2 - 2010 10th IEEE International Conference on Solid-State and Integrated Circuit Technology
Y2 - 1 November 2010 through 4 November 2010
ER -