• DocumentCode
    2149999
  • Title

    Gate oxide breakdown location effect on power amplifier and mixed-signal circuits

  • Author

    Yuan, J.S. ; Ma, J.

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Univ. of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    20-23 Oct. 2008
  • Firstpage
    1365
  • Lastpage
    1368
  • Abstract
    Gate oxide breakdown location effect on the class AB power amplifier and mixed-signal sample-and-hold circuit have been studied. The soft breakdown has minor effect on the performance of power amplifier and sample-hold circuit, while the hard breakdown at the drain side reduces power efficiency of class AB power amplifier and degrades signal to noise ratio of sample-and-hold circuit significantly.
  • Keywords
    MOSFET; mixed analogue-digital integrated circuits; power amplifiers; sample and hold circuits; semiconductor device breakdown; MOSFET; class AB power amplifier performance; gate oxide breakdown location effect; mixed-signal sample-and-hold circuit; power efficiency; sample-and-hold circuit SNR; CMOS logic circuits; Degradation; Electric breakdown; Leakage current; MOSFETs; Operational amplifiers; Power amplifiers; Radiofrequency amplifiers; Stress; Voltage;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Solid-State and Integrated-Circuit Technology, 2008. ICSICT 2008. 9th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Beijing
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2185-5
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2186-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICSICT.2008.4734815
  • Filename
    4734815