Substrate coupling can corrupt low level analog signals and impair the performance of monolithic integrated circuits. Therefore, a characterization methodology able to evaluate the efficiency of the countermeasures against crosstalk, appears very important for designers. In this paper, after the verification that PMOS transistors are more sensitive to substrate voltage fluctuations than NMOS on...

Industry trends aimed at integrating higher levels of circuit functionality have triggered a proliferation of mixed analog-digital systems. Magniied noise coupling through the common chip substrate has made the design and veriication of such systems an increasingly diicult task. In this paper we present a fast eigendecomposition technique that accelerates operator application in BEM methods and...

In the design of cascode CMOS low-noise amplifiers, the gate-drain capacitance is generally neglected because it is thought to be small enough compared to gate-source capacitance. However, a careful examination will reveal the fact that the drain impedance of the input transistor significantly affects the input impedance through the gate-drain capacitance, especially as the CMOS technology gett...

For the first time we report that by introducing sub-nm roughness on a Si surface, the energy coupling between a single layer graphene (SLG) and the Si substrate can be improved substantially. This is contrary to the traditional view that a rough surface contact will weaken the energy coupling, rather than improve it. Periodical grooves of 2 nm width and 2 nm spacing are introduced on the surfa...

Functional coupling, where a single morphological trait performs multiple functions, is a universal feature of organismal design. Theory suggests that functional coupling may constrain the rate of phenotypic evolution, yet empirical tests of this hypothesis are rare. In fish, the evolutionary transition from guarding the eggs on a sandy/rocky substrate (i.e. substrate guarding) to mouthbrooding...

Metal nanoparticles are efficient resonant plasmonic scatterers for light, and, if placed on top of a high-index substrate, can efficiently couple light into the substrate. This coupling, however, strongly depends on particle shape and surrounding environment. We study the effect of particle shape and substrate refractive index on the plasmonic resonances of silver nanoparticles and we systemat...

A modification to a recently developed chip/wafer integration technology has proven to be very effective in suppressing the substrate crosstalk for mixed signal systems. In this implementation, analog and digital chips are fabricated on separate dies, and then integrated on a single Si substrate using a Self-Aligned Wafer-Level Integration Technology. A truly grounded faraday-cage structure is ...