• DocumentCode
    812243
  • Title

    Isolation charge pump fabricated in silicon on sapphire CMOS technology

  • Author

    Culurciello, E. ; Pouliquen, P.O. ; Andreou, A.G.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Yale Univ., New Haven, CT, USA
  • Volume
    41
  • Issue
    10
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    5/12/2005 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    590
  • Lastpage
    592
  • Abstract
    The design, fabrication and testing of a four-stage charge-pump fabricated in a 0.5 μm silicon-on-sapphire CMOS technology is reported. The charge pump can generate a 2.68 V output with a 3.3 V input power supply, consuming 2.5 mA. The performance of the architecture is optimised by judiciously employing MOS transistors with different threshold (0, 0.3 and 0.7 V) in the different parts of the circuit. The charge pump input and output power supplies are galvanically isolated to over 800 V by means of the dielectric properties of the coupling capacitors and the insulating sapphire substrate.
  • Keywords
    CMOS integrated circuits; MOSFET; power supply circuits; sapphire; silicon-on-insulator; 0.5 micron; 2.5 mA; 2.68 V; 3.3 V; MOS transistors; coupling capacitors; dielectric properties; isolation charge pump; sapphire substrate; silicon on sapphire CMOS technology;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:20050312
  • Filename
    1432535