Semiconductor Engineering

Speeding Up NMOS

For years—decades, in fact—the NMOS transistor world has been on cruise control. NMOS is naturally faster and its performance has scaled better than PMOS. PMOS has had a cost advantage. But lately, it ...
Electronics Weekly

X-Fab adds 375V nmos and pmos super-junction transistors to BCD chip process

X-Fab Silicon Foundries has added 375V power transistors to the devices available from its 180nm deep trench isolation BCD-on-SoI platform chip fab. The second generation of its XT018 super-junction ...
IEEE

Reduced current class AB radio receiver stages using novel superlinear transistors with parallel NMOS and PMOS transistors at one GHz

Abstract: Class AB amplifier stages are commonly used to conserve power in radio transmitters. In this paper, a Class AB amplifier stage is investigated for use in radio receivers to reduce power ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Mobility Gets A Boost With Expanded Epi Applications

Even as industry moves into the era of the high k metal gate (HKMG) and FinFET transistor, chipmakers continue to seek ways to improve device performance. One of the latest advances and the subject of ...
Electronics Weekly

Updated: X-FAB adds to low-noise transistor portfolio

X-FAB has added three new low-noise transistors to its 180nm process node: a 1.8 V low-noise NMOS, a 3.3 V low-noise NMOS and a 3.3 V low-noise PMOS – all of which offer drastically reduced flicker ...
EDN

Models for high-voltage transistors in a standard CMOS process

Designers of electronics and communications systems are constantly faced with the challenge of integrating greater functionality on less silicon area. Many of the system blocks – such as power ...
IEEE

Advancing Monolayer 2-D nMOS and pMOS Transistor Integration From Growth to Van Der Waals Interface Engineering for Ultimate CMOS Scaling

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