Title :
Design of High-Speed Metal-Semiconductor-Metal Photodetectors by Finger Sizing Optimization
Author_Institution :
Information Systems Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-9510
Abstract :
Finger sizing of interdigitated Schottky-barrier Metal-Semiconductor-Metal Photodetectors (MSM-PD) is discussed in this paper. We observe that the MSM-PD geometry with fast response speed can be determined by solving a special form of optimization problem, called reversed posynomial programs, which can be globally solved by, e.g., branch-and-bound methods. Our method, therefore, yields completely automated nger sizing of MSM-PD, directly from specifications.
Keywords :
Constraint optimization; Delay; Design optimization; Fingers; Geometry; Information systems; Laboratories; Photodetectors; Programming profession; Time measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Sarnoff Symposium, 2006 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Princeton, NJ
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-0002-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-0003-4
DOI :
10.1109/SARNOF.2006.4534778
