Prediction of RF Performances of Advanced MOS Transistors from DC and Low Frequency Measurements,

Abstract; This work presents a new method to easily and rapidly extract RF figures of merit of MOSFET transistors. Using DC and low frequency measurements, the extrinsic resistances (Rg, Rs, Rd), the intrinsic conductances (gm, gd), and the input capacitance Cgg have been extracted. The evaluation of these parameters has enabled to compute 2 RF figures of merit (FoM), namely, […]

October 15, 2019 Rachid SIKADOUR , , , ,

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An efficient and reliable small signal intrinsic parameters extraction for HEMT GaN devices

Abstract; To efficiently design GaN HEMT devices, a robust extraction of their intrinsic electrical equivalent circuit element values is critical. Aiming to accurately determine all intrinsic element values, a new elements‐based small‐signal equivalent circuit technique is introduced in this paper. Compared to the conventional GaAs‐based HEMT small‐signal model composed of 16 elements, the proposed equivalent […]

October 15, 2019 Rachid SIKADOUR , , , ,

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Design of miniaturized CMOS bandpass filters for ultra-wideband applications

Abstract; In this paper, a set of ultra-compact CMOS bandpass filters are proposed for ultra-wideband (UWB) applications. For this aim, a comparative study was first performed enabling to deduce that Chebyshev-inverse and Hourglass filtering functions can be the most suitable for UWB operation. The impact of the latter functions on the easiness of implementation in […]

October 15, 2019 Rachid SIKADOUR , , , ,

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Design and analysis of CMOS RCG transimpedance amplifier based on elliptic filter approach

Abstract; This study presents a new design of compact transimpedance amplifier (TIA) for optical communication applications. By adopting the regulated common gate (RCG) topology, the proposed amplifier is designed and synthesised based on a thirdorder elliptic filter approach. Implemented in 0.13 μm complementary metal oxide semiconductor technology, the post layout simulation results provide 50 dB […]

October 15, 2019 Rachid SIKADOUR , , , ,

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Analysis of NBTI Degradation in nMOS-Capacitors and nMOSFETs

Abstract; This paper presents a new attempt to more understand negative bias temperature instability (NBTI) stress in semiconductor devices. NBTI impact has been experimentally investigated on both p-substrate MOS (nMOS-capacitor) and nMOS transistors under accumulation condition, and new findings have been revealed. Indeed, nMOS-capacitor’s flat band shift (VFB) under NBTI stress has disclosed that time […]

October 15, 2019 Rachid SIKADOUR , , , ,

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Selective Band Gap to Suppress the Spurious Acoustic Mode in Film Bulk Acoustic Resonator Structures

Abstract; In this work, we investigate numerically the propagation of Lamb waves in a film bulk acoustic resonator (FBAR) structure formed by piezoelectric ZnO layer sandwiched between two Mo electrodes coupled with Bragg reflectors; the system is thus considered as a phononic-crystal (PnC) plate. The aim is to suppress the first-order symmetric Lamb wave mode […]

October 15, 2019 Rachid SIKADOUR , , , ,

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Selection of Optimal Sub-ensembles of Classifiers through Evolutionary Game Theory

abstract Ensemble methodology combines multiple learning schemes in order to improve the classification performance. An ensemble made of a large number of classifiers entails an increase in the computational cost, memory storage, and even a reduction in the predictive performance. Ensemble pruning has become an important task that lives up to these challenges. The thrust […]

October 8, 2019 Rachid SIKADOUR

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