Browsing by Author "Duh, TS"

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40-GHz coplanar waveguide bandpass filters on silicon substrate
(2002-11-01)
Chan, KT
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Chen, CY
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Chin, A
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Hsieh, JC
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Liu, J
We report a very simple process to fabricate high performance filter on Si at 40 GHz; using proton implantation. The filter has only -3.4-dB loss at peak transmission of 40 GHz; with a broad 9-GHz bandwidth. In sharp contrast, the filter on 1.5-mum SiO2 isolated Si has much worse transmission and reflection loss. This is the first demonstration of high performance filter at millimeter-wave regime on Si with process compatible to current VLSI technology.
Isolation on Si wafers by MeV proton bombardment for RF integrated circuits
(2001-05-01)
Lee, LS
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Liao, CP
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Lee, CL
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Huang, TH
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Tang, DDL
This paper studies issues related with using high energy protons to create local semi-insulating silicon regions on IC wafers for device isolation and realization of high-Q IC inductors, Topics on two approaches, i.e., one using Al as the radiation mask and the other using proton direct-write on wafers were studied, It was shown that Al can effectively mask the proton bombardment of 15 MeV up to the fluence of 10(17) cm(-2). For the unmasking direct write of the proton bombardment, isolation in the silicon wafer can be achieved without damaging active devices if the proton fluence is kept below 1 x 10(14) cm-2 with the substrate resistivity level chosen at 140 Omega -cm, or kept at 1 x 10(15) cm(-2) with the substrate resistivity level chosen at 15 Omega -cm. Under the above approaches, the 1 h-200 degreesC thermal treatment, which is necessary for device final packaging, still gives enough high resistivity for the semi-insulating regions while recovers somewhat the active device characteristics, For the integrated passive inductor fabricated on the surface of the silicon wafer, the proton radiation improves its Q value.