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Asked 3 November 2022
  • Iran Analog Research Group, Tehran, Iran

How to realize MOSFET based Capacitor (MOSCAP) as big as possible?

Considering any CMOS technology, I am eager to know what is the upper limitation of MOSCAP design. Also I want to know that MOSCAP is larger than conventional on chip capacitors or not. For instance how to compare 1pF MOSCAP and a 1pF on chip capacitor regarding die occupation. Totally avoiding passive elements in chips can save lots of area, so I am looking for methos for realizing larger capacitors with smaller die occupation.

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Pancha Yannick Hertz
University of Yaoundé I
I think you can use multifinger.

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Shakeeb Abdullah
Carleton University
Make as many fingers as possible and make the fingers as skinny as possible to take advantage of infringing capacitance.
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ESR (Equivalent Series Resistance) is a limiting factor for capacitors. A large value capacitor (tantalum, electrolytic, etc) has a high ESR. It will not filter high frequencies. A ceramic capacitor has a low ESR. It will filter high frequencies.
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Pancha Yannick Hertz
University of Yaoundé I
I think you can use multifinger.

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