TY - JOUR
T1 - Compact ESD Protection Cell for Multi-Band Millimeter-Wave Applications
AU - Lin, Chun Yu
AU - Fu, Yi Quan
AU - Wang, Jih Yan
N1 - Funding Information:
Manuscript received October 31, 2019; revised November 16, 2019; accepted November 25, 2019. Date of publication January 2, 2020; date of current version January 8, 2020. This work was supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), Taiwan, under Contract MOST 108-2221-E-003-018. (Corresponding author: Chun-Yu Lin.) The authors are with the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei 106, Taiwan (e-mail: cy.lin@ieee.org).
PY - 2020/1/1
Y1 - 2020/1/1
N2 - A compact electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection cell is proposed for multi-band millimeter-wave (MMW) circuits in nanoscale CMOS technology. The proposed ESD protection cell consists of a silicon-controlled rectifier (SCR) and a diode as the main ESD protection devices, and an inductor in this cell is divided into several sections to resonate at multifrequencies. The proposed design has been demonstrated for 28- and 67-GHz applications. The measurement results show that the proposed design exhibits lower loss at the specified frequency bands, higher ESD robustness, and sufficiently small layout area. Therefore, the novel compact ESD protection cell will be better for multi-band MMW applications in CMOS technology.
AB - A compact electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection cell is proposed for multi-band millimeter-wave (MMW) circuits in nanoscale CMOS technology. The proposed ESD protection cell consists of a silicon-controlled rectifier (SCR) and a diode as the main ESD protection devices, and an inductor in this cell is divided into several sections to resonate at multifrequencies. The proposed design has been demonstrated for 28- and 67-GHz applications. The measurement results show that the proposed design exhibits lower loss at the specified frequency bands, higher ESD robustness, and sufficiently small layout area. Therefore, the novel compact ESD protection cell will be better for multi-band MMW applications in CMOS technology.
KW - Electrostatic discharge (ESD)
KW - multi-band
KW - silicon-controlled rectifier (SCR)
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U2 - 10.1109/LMWC.2019.2957204
DO - 10.1109/LMWC.2019.2957204
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85078694593
VL - 30
SP - 58
EP - 61
JO - IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters
JF - IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters
SN - 1531-1309
IS - 1
M1 - 8947990
ER -