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Ruibo Chen1, Hao Wei1, Hongxia Liu1
1Key Laboratory for Wide Band Gap Semiconductor Materials and Devices of Education, School of Microelectronics, Xidian University, Xi'an 710071, China.
Abstract:
In this paper, an improved low-voltage-triggered silicon-controlled rectifier (LVTSCR) called an ultra-low-voltage-triggered SCR (ULVTSCR) is proposed and fabricated in a 40-nm CMOS process. By adding an external NMOSs-chain triggering component to the conventional LVTSCR, the proposed ULVTSCR can realize ~2 V lower trigger voltage. Meanwhile, the trigger voltage of the ULVTSCR is adjustable with the number of its incorporated NMOS transistors. Compared with the existing Diodes-chain Triggered SCR (DTSCR) scheme, the NMOSs-chain triggered ULVTSCR possesses a 25% lowered overshoot voltage in the same area consumption, and thus it is more suitable for 2.5 V circuits ESD protections considering the CDM protection applications.
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