• DocumentCode
    3671973
  • Title

    Boosting the electrical performance of MOSFET switches by applying Ellipsoidal layout style

  • Author

    Marcello Marcelino Correia;Salvador P. Gimenez

  • Author_Institution
    Electrical Engineering Department, FEI University Center, Sã
  • fYear
    2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    Through three-dimensional numerical simulations, we investigate the use of ellipsoidal layout style on the electrical performance of a Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (MOS) Field Effect Transistors (MOSFETs) switch. This gate geometry is capable to adding two new effects in the MOSFET structure named Longitudinal Corner Effect (LCE) and Parallel Connection of MOSFET with Different Channel Lengths Effect (PAMDLE) that result in the boosting of the main digital figures of merit. The main findings of this work demonstrate that the Ellipsoidal gate geometry is a viable alternative layout style to implement MOSFET switches to significantly improve its electrical performance and, consequently, the performance of the DC/DC converters.
  • Keywords
    "Switching circuits","Logic gates","Switches","Layout","FinFETs","CMOS integrated circuits"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Microelectronics Technology and Devices (SBMicro), 2015 30th Symposium on
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/SBMicro.2015.7298122
  • Filename
    7298122