A BENDING N-WELL BALLAST LAYOUT TO IMPROVE ESD ROBUSTNESS IN FULLY-SILICIDED CMOS TECHNOLOGY

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Wen, Yong-Ru [1 ]
Ker, Ming-Dou [1 ]
Chen, Wen-Yi [1 ]
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[1] Natl Chiao Tung Univ, Inst Elect, Hsinchu 30039, Taiwan
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10.1109/IRPS.2010.5488718
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
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0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
Ballast technique has been reported as a cost effective method to improve ESD robustness of fully-silicided devices without using silicide block. In this work, a new ballast technique, the bending N-Well (BNW) ballast structure, is proposed to enhance ESD robustness of fully-silicided NMOS. With a deep N-Well to cover the fully-silicided NMOS with BNW ballast structure, ESD robustness of the NMOS can be further improved by enhancing the turn-on uniformity among the multi-fingers of the NMOS.
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