Submicron gap capacitor for measurement of breakdown voltage in air

Measurement of Air Breakdown Voltage and Electric Field Using Standad Sphere Gap Method

Switched-capacitor Circuit Techniques in Submicron Low-voltage Cmos

The continued down scaling of submicron CMOS technology forces innovation of practical and economical circuits that will tolerate reduced headroom (reduced power supply voltage) due to lowering of the technology’s maximum allowable voltage. Given the relatively large threshold voltages with respect to the shrinking headroom, a group of widely used analog signal processing building blocks that a...

Using Subgridding FDTD Method to Incorporate Air Gap Breakdown in the Analysis of Lightning Induced Voltage

A subgridding formulation of Agrawal coupling equations of transmission line with branch and distributed electromagnetic excitation is proposed. This algorithm enables us to solve the transmission line system using different temporal and spatial step on different branches. The method is used to calculate the lightning induced over-voltage on the transmission line installed with air gap componen...

The Study of Breakdown Voltages for Triggered Spark Gap Switches

This study explains the breakdown mechanism in different triggered spark gap switches. Two different trigger electrode configurations are tested for the switch predischarge operation in a nitrogen laser circuit. The behavior of the breakdown voltage, when a trigger pulse is applied to the trigger electrode, is investigated, and the results are reported. Based on the experimental measurements ne...

Capacitor-couple ESD protection circuit for deep-submicron low-voltage CMOS ASIC

Capacitor-couple technique used to lower snapbacktrigger voltage and to ensure uniform ESD current distribution in deep-submicron CMOS on-chip ESD protection circuit is proposed. The coupling capacitor is realized by a poly layer right under the wire-bonding metal pad without increasing extra layout area to the pad. A timing-original design model has been derived to calculate the capacitor-coup...