一种CMOS新型ESD保护电路设计

金属氧化物半导体(MOS)器件的缩放技术使集成电路芯片面临着严重的静电放电(ESD)威胁,而目前采用的ESD保护电路由于电流集边效应等原因,普遍存在着抗静电能力有限、占用较大芯片面积等问题。根据全芯片ESD防护机理,基于SMIC 0.18μm工艺设计并实现了一种新型ESD保护电路,其具有结构简单、占用芯片面积小、抗ESD能力强等特点。对电路的测试结果表明,相对于相同尺寸栅极接地结构ESD保护电路,新型ESD保护电路在降低35%芯片面积的同时,抗ESD击穿电压提升了32%,能够有效保护芯片内部电路免受ESD造成的损伤和降低ESD保护电路的成本。     

一种基于CMOS工艺的新型结构ESD保护电路

根据全芯片静电放电(ESD)损伤防护理论,设计了一种新型结构保护电路,采用0.6μm 标准CMOS p阱工艺进行了新型保护电路的多项目晶圆(MPW)投片验证. 通过对同一MPW中的新型结构ESD保护电路和具有同样宽长比的传统栅极接地MOS(GG-nMOS)保护电路的传输线脉冲测试,结果表明在不增加额外工艺步骤的前提下,本文设计的新型结构ESD保护电路芯片面积减少了约22%,静态电流更低,而抗ESD电压提高了近32%. 该保护电路通过了5kV的人体模型测试.     

一种基于CMOS工艺的新型结构ESD保护电路

根据伞芯片静电放电(ESD)损伤防护理论,设计了一种新犁结构保护电路,采用0.6μm标准CMOS p阱工艺进行了新型保护电路的多项目晶圆(MPW)投片验证.通过对同一MPW中的新型结构ESD保护电路和具有同样宽长比的传统栅极接地MOS(GG-nMOS)保护电路的传输线脉冲测试,结果表明在不增加额外工艺步骤的前提下,本文设计的新型结构ESD保护电路芯片面积减少了约22%,静态电流更低,而抗ESD电压提高了近32%.该保护电路通过了5kV的人体模型测试.     

高性能集成电路在片ESD保护设计与评价

本文详细介绍了在片静电泄漏(ESD)保护设计的各种技术,包括 ESD 测试模式,ESD 失效机理,ESD 保护结构,ESD 器件模拟,ESD 模拟,ESD 版图设计,ESD 与内部电路的接口等,并给出了 ESD 设计检查清单。     

SCR器件在CMOS静电保护电路中的应用

静电放电(ESD)对CMOS电路的可靠性构成了很大威胁。随着CMOS电路集成度的不断提高，其对ESD保护的要求也更加严格。针对近年来SCR器件更加广泛地被采用到CMOS静电保护电路中的情况，文章总结了SCR保护电路发展过程中各种电路的工作机理。旨在为集成电路设计人员提供ESD保护方面的设计思路以及努力方向。     

利用键合线提高ESD保护电路射频性能的研究

提出了一种利用键合线提高ESD保护电路射频性能的新型片外ESD保护电路结构。该新型结构在不降低ESD保护电路抗静电能力前提下,提高了ESD保护电路射频性能。针对一款达林顿结构ESD保护电路,制作了现有ESD保护电路结构和新型ESD保护电路结构的测试板级电路,测试结果表明:两种ESD保护电路结构的抗静电能力均达到20 kV,现有ESD保护电路结构在0～4.3 GHz频段内衰减系数均小于1 dB,反射损耗系数均小于-10 dB,最高工作频率为4.3 GHz;新型ESD保护电路结构在0～5.6 GHz频段内衰减系数均小于1 dB,反射损耗系数均小于-10 dB,最高工作频率为5.6 GHz。     

TFSOI/CMOS ESD研究

文章讨论了TFSOI／CMOS中ESD电路与常见体硅ESD电路的主要区别,详细分析了ESD电路中各个组成部分对整体性能的影响,成功地研制了抗2000V静电的ESD保护电路,指出了进一步提高TFSOI／CMOS ESD抗静电能力的途径。     

几种应用于触摸感应电路的ESD保护结构设计

电容式触摸感应检测按键电路是一类对静电特别敏感的电路,因此静电放电(ESD)保护结构的选择问题对这一类电路显得特别重要。一方面要确保所选择的ESD保护结构有足够的抗静电能力,另一方面这种ESD保护结构又不能使芯片的面积和成本增加太多,基于此要求,介绍了3种应用在电容式触摸感应检测按键电路中的ESD保护结构。主要描述了这3种结构的电路形式和版图布局,着重阐述了为满足电容式触摸感应检测按键电路的具体要求而对这3种结构所作的改进。列出了这3种改进过后的ESD保护结构的特点、所占用芯片面积以及抗静电能力测试结果的比较。结果表明,经过改进后的3种ESD保护结构在保护能力、芯片面积利用率以及可靠性等方面都有了非常好的提升。     

SCR 器件在深亚微米CMOS静电保护电路中的应用

:CMOS工艺发展到深亚微米阶段,芯片的静电放电(ESD)保护能力受到了更大的限制.因此,对ESD保护的要求也更加严格,需要采取更加有效而且可靠的ESD保护措施.针对近年来SCR器件更加广泛地被采用到CMOS静电保护电路中的情况,总结了SCR保护电路发展过程中各种电路的工作机理.旨在为集成电路设计人员提供ESD保护方面的设计思路以及努力方向.     

RAYCHEM电路保护部推出高速数据传输应用的新型低电容ESD保护器件

泰科电子Raychem电路保护部推出静电放电(ESD)保护器件,进一步扩展了其电路保护产品阵营。设计用于USB2.0、IEEE1394、数字视频接口(DVI)和天线开关的输入/输出端口保护,PESD0402和0603保护器件提供电子行业流行的尺寸大小。这款兼容R o H S的产品能够旁路静电放电,使其避开HDTV、打印机、笔记本电脑、手机和其它便携式设备的敏感电路。Raychem电路保护部保持其在电路保护行业一贯的领先地位,其ESD器件采用了先进的厚膜技术,确保了ESD保护器件在高速数据传输应用中只有极低的电容(典型情况下为0.25pF)。本产品在传输线路脉冲(…     

Preparation and Characterization of TaN ALD Precursors

High purity organic-tantalum precursors for thin film ALD TaN were synthesized and characterized.Vapor pressure and thermal stability of these precursors were studied.From the vapor pressure analysis,it was found that TBTEMT has a higher vapor pressure than any other published liquid TaN precursor,including TBTDET,TAITMATA,and IPTDET.Thermal stability of the alkyl groups on the precursors was investigated using a 1H NMR technique.The results indicated that the tertbutylimino group is the most stable group on TBTDET and TBTEMT as compared to the dialkylamido groups.Thermal stability of TaN precursors decreased in the following order:TBTDET ＞ PDMAT ＞ TBTEMT.In conclusion,precursor vapor pressure and thermal stability were tuned by making slight variations in the ligand sphere around the metal center.     

Curved crystal spectrometer for the measurement of X-ray lines from laser-produced plasmas

In order to diagnose the laser-produced plasmas, a focusing curved crystal spectrometer has been developed for measuring the X-ray lines radiated from a laser-produced plasmas. The design is based on the fact that the ray emitted from a source located at one focus of an ellipse will converge on the other focus by the reflection of the elliptical surface. The focal length and the eccentricity of the ellipse are 1350 mm and 0.9586, respectively. The spectrometer can be used to measure the X- ray lines in the wavelength range of 0.2-0.37 nm, and a LiF crystal （200） （2d = 0.4027 nm） is used as dispersive element covering Bragg angle from 30° to 67.5°. The spectrometer was tested on Shengnang- Ⅱ which can deliver laser energy of 60-80 J/pulse and the laser wavelength is 0.35 μm. Photographs of spectra including the 1 s2p ^1P1-1s^2 ^1S0 resonance line（w）, the 1s2p ^3P2-1s^2 1S0 magnetic quadrupole line（x）, the 1s2p ^3P1-1 s^2 ^1S0 intercombination lines（y）, the 1 s2p ^3S~1-1 s^2 ^1S0 forbidden line（z） in helium-like Ti Ⅹ Ⅺ and the 1 s2s2p ^2P3/2-1 s622s ^2S1/2 line（q） in lithium-like Ti Ⅹ Ⅹhave been recorded with a X-ray CCD camera. The experimental result shows that the wavelength resolution（λ/△ 2） is above 1000 and the elliptical crystal spectrometer is suitable for X-ray spectroscopy.     

Cost-effective test solutions for smart card and other integrated flash applications

From its emergence in the late 1980s as a lower cost alternative to early EEPROM technologies, flash memory has evolved to higher densities and speedsand rapidly growing acceptance in mobile applications.In the process, flash memory devices have placed increased test requirements on manufacturers. Today, as flash device test grows in importance in China, manufacturers face growing pressure for reduced cost-oftest, increased throughput and greater return on investment for test equipment. At the same time, the move to integrated flash packages for contactless smart card applications adds a significant further challenge to manufacturers seeking rapid, low-cost test.     

An improved parallel thinning algorithm with two subiterations

The parallel thinning algorithm with two subiterations is improved in this paper. By analyzing the notions of connected components and passes, a conclusion is drawn that the number of passes and the number of eight-connected components are equal. Then the expression of the number of eight-connected components is obtained which replaces the old one in the algorithm. And a reserving condition is proposed by experiments, which alleviates the excess deletion where a diagonal line and a beeline intersect. The experimental results demonstrate that the thinned curve is almost located in the middle of the original curve connectivelv with single pixel width and the processing speed is high.     

Theoretical analysis of the relationship between the Brillouin gain coefficient and the strain in the optical-fiber sensors

The relation between the power of the Brillouin signal and the strain is one of the bases of the distributed fiber sensors of temperature and strain. The coefficient of the Bfillouin gain can be changed by the temperature and the strain that will affect the power of the Brillouin scattering. The relation between the change of the Brillouin gain coefficient and the strain is thought to be linear by many researchers. However, it is not always linear based on the theoretical analysis and numerical simulation. Therefore, errors will be caused if the relation between the change of the Brillouin gain coefficient and the strain is regarded as to be linear approximately for measuring the temperature and the strain. For this reason, the influence of the parameters on the Brillouin gain coefficient is proposed through theoretical analysis and numerical simulation.     

Novel fiber-optical interferometer with miniaturized probe for in-hole measurements

Today, micro-system technology and the development of new MEMS （Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems） are emerging rapidly. In order for this development to become a success in the long run, measurement systems have to ensure product quality. Most often, MEMS have to be tested by means of functionality or destructive tests. One reason for this is that there are no suitable systems or sensing probes available which can be used for the measurement of quasi inaccessible features like small holes or cavities. We present a measurement system that could be used for these kinds of measurements. The system combines a fiber optical, miniaturized sensing probe with low-coherence interferometry, so that absolute distance measurements with nanometer accuracy are possible.     

Electronic Structure of Semiconductor Nanocrystals

This paper reviews our recent development of the use of the large-scale pseudopotential method to calculate the electronic structure of semiconductor nanocrystals, such as quantum dots and wires, which often contain tens of thousands of atoms. The calculated size-dependent exciton energies and absorption spectra of quantum dots and wires are in good agreement with experiments. We show that the electronic structure of a nanocrystal can be tuned not only by its size,but also by its shape. Finally,we show that defect properties in quantum dots can be significantly different from those in bulk semiconductors.     

Critical Stage Rule-Based Real Time Dispatch（RTD）System in Highly-Mixed-Products （HMP） FAB

An improving utilization and efficiency of critical equipments in semiconductor wafer fabrication facilities are concerned. Semiconductor manufacturing FAB is one of the most complicated and cost sensitive environments. A good dispatching tool will make big difference in equipment utilization and FAB output as a whole. The equipment in this paper is In-Line DUV Scanner. There are many factors impacting utilization and output on this equipment group. In HMP environment one of the issues is changing of reticule in this area and idle counts due to load unbalance between equipments. Here we'll introduce a rule-based RTD system which aiming at decreasing the number of recipe change and idle counts among a group of scanner equipment in a high-mixed-products FAB.     

GaAsSb/InAlAs PA DHBTs Grown by Production MBE

The epi material growth of GaAsSb based DHBTs with InAlAs emitters are investigated using a 4 × 100mm multi-wafer production Riber 49 MBE reactor fully equipped with real-time in-situ sensors including an absorption band edge spectroscope and an optical-based flux monitor. The state-of-the-art hole mobilities are obtained from 100nm thick carbon-doped GaAsSb. A Sb composition variation of less than ± 0.1 atomic percent across a 4 × 100mm platen configuration has been achieved. The large area InAlAs/GaAsSb/InP DHBT device demonstrates excellent DC characteristics,such as BVCEO＞6V and a DC current gain of 45 at 1kA/cm2 for an emitter size of 50μm × 50μm. The devices have a 40nm thick GaAsSb base with p-doping of 4. 5 × 1019cm-3 . Devices with an emitter size of 4μm × 30μm have a current gain variation less than 2% across the fully processed 100mm wafer. ft and fmax are over 50GHz,with a power efficiency of 50% ,which are comparable to standard power GaAs HBT results. These results demonstrate the potential application of GaAsSb/InP DHBT for power amplifiers and the feasibility of multi-wafer MBE for mass production of GaAsSb-based HBTs.     

Teleportation of an arbitrary unknown N-qubit entangled state under the controlling of M controllers

A new quantum protocol to teleport an arbitrary unknown N-qubit entangled state from a sender to a fixed receiver under M controllers(M < N) is proposed. The quantum resources required are M non-maximally entangled Greenberger-Home-Zeilinger (GHZ) state and N-M non-maximally entangled Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) pairs. The sender performs N generalized Bell-state measurements on the 2N particles. Controllers take M single-particle measurement along x-axis, and the receiver needs to introduce one auxiliary two-level particle to extract quantum information probabilistically with the fidelity unit if controllers cooperate with it.