— This paper presents a new technique for the monolithic heterogeneous integration of compound semiconductor devices with silicon integrated circuits, and establishes the theoretical foundation for a key element of the process, tailored magnetic attraction and retention. It is shown how a patterned thin film of hard magnetic material can be used to engineer the attraction between the film and n...

Micro strip transmission lines are widely used, and for good reason. They are broadband in Trea hertz frequency. They provide circuits that are compact and light in weight. They are generally economical to produce since they are readily adaptable to hybrid and monolithic integrated circuit (IC) fabrication technologies at Tera Hertz frequencies. To better appreciate printed transmission lines a...

A novel process for monolithic integration of RF MEMS switches with three-dimensional (3-D) antenna elements on a microwave laminate printed circuit board (PCB) is presented. This process calls for a low temperature (90-170C) high-density inductively coupled plasma chemical vapor deposition (HDICP CVD) technique that allows the choice of any PCB substrate, such as RO4003-FR4 (εr=3.38, tanδ=0.00...

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION The AD561 is an integrated circuit 10-bit digital-to-analog converter combined with a high stability voltage reference fabricated on a single monolithic chip. Using ten precision highspeed current-steering switches, a control amplifier, voltage reference, and laser-trimmed thin-film SiCr resistor network, the device produces a fast, accurate analog output current. Laser trim...

In this Letter, we propose a class of nonlinear dynamic translinear circuits as a viable tool for the rapid and systematic implementation of chaotic oscillators in analog integrated circuits. In this regard, our primary focus is on multiple-input translinear element (MITE) networks and their particular merits. We also describe, as an illustrative example, our monolithic implementation of the Lo...

This paper includes investigations of power losses in monolithic buck dc-dc converter designed with Cadence on CMOS 0.35 μm process. Input voltage of the designed circuit is equal to 3.6 V and output voltage is regulated to 1.2 V. Evaluated and estimated are power dissipations in the MOS transistor, filter inductor and filter capacitor of the buck converter. Investigated and compared are losses...

This paper presents a monolithic optical detector, consisting of an integrated photodiode and a pre-amplifier in a standard 0.18μm CMOS technology. 3Gb/s data-rate was achieved at λ=850nm with an average optical power of 25 μW and BER10. This data-rate is over half an order of magnitude higher than that of current state-of-the-art optical detectors in standard CMOS. High speed operation is achi...

A layer-encoded interactive evolutionary algorithm (IEA) for optimization of design parameters of a monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) low noise amplifier is presented. The IEA comprises a combination of the genetic algorithm (GA) and the particle swarm optimization (PSO) technique. The layer-encoding structure allows human intervention in order to accelerate the process of evolutio...

A complete two-dimensional imaging system based on a silicon monolithic array of 60 single-photon counters is presented. The fabricated solid-state array is rugged and operates at low voltages. Detection efficiency is higher than 40% in the visible range, and cross talk among 50 microm pixels is lower than 10(-4). The complete system provides a maximum throughput of 20 kframes/s with truly para...

The structures that can be implemented and the materials that are used in complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) integrated circuit (IC) technology are optimized for electronic performance. However, they are also suitable for manipulating and detecting optical signals. In this paper, we show that while CMOS scaling trends are motivated by improved electronic performance, they are also c...