Design of dual-band ESD protection for 24-/60-GHz millimeter-wave circuits

Li Wei Chu; Chun Yu Lin; Ming-Dou Ker

doi:10.1109/TDMR.2012.2217498

Design of dual-band ESD protection for 24-/60-GHz millimeter-wave circuits

Li Wei Chu^*, Chun Yu Lin, Ming-Dou Ker

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Abstract

To effectively protect the millimeter-wave (MMW) circuits in nanoscale CMOS technology from electrostatic discharge (ESD) damages, a dual-band ESD protection cell for 24-/60-GHz ESD protection is presented in this paper. The proposed ESD protection cell consisted of a diode, a silicon-controlled rectifier, a PMOS, and two inductors. To verify the dual-band characteristics and ESD robustness, the proposed ESD protection circuit had been applied to a 24-/60-GHz low-noise amplifier (LNA). The measurement results showed over-2-kV human-body-model ESD robustness with little performance degradation on LNA. The proposed dual-band ESD protection cell was suitable for circuit designers for them to easily apply ESD protection in the dual-band MMW circuits.

Original language	English
Article number	6296697
Pages (from-to)	110-118
Number of pages	9
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Device and Materials Reliability
Volume	13
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TDMR.2012.2217498
State	Published - 19 Mar 2013

Keywords

CMOS
dual-band
electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection
millimeter-wave (MMW)
radio frequency (RF)

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