학술논문

Design, assessment and modeling of an integrated 0.4 µm SiGe Bipolar VCSEL driver under γ-radiation
Document Type
Conference
Source
2008 European Conference on Radiation and Its Effects on Components and Systems Radiation and Its Effects on Components and Systems (RADECS), 2008 European Conference on. :53-58 Sep, 2008
Subject
Nuclear Engineering
Photonics and Electrooptics
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Bioengineering
Driver circuits
Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers
Silicon germanium
Radiation effects
Transistors
Current measurement
SPICE
total dose effects
VCSEL driver
gamma-radiation
SiGe HBT
radiation hard
IC design
Language
ISSN
0379-6566
Abstract
This paper describes the characterization and SPICE model adaptations for a SiGe Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor (HBT) with a characteristic emitter width of 0.4µm, which is part of the device library in a commercial 0.35µm SiGe BiCMOS technology. The developed model is used to design and validate the operation of an integrated driver for a 1550nm Vertical Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser (VCSEL). The static measurements of the driver during irradiation up to 600 kGy correspond well with the simulations. A second irradiation experiment up to 1.6 MGy allowed us to verify the dynamic operation. Investigation of the eye diagram of the output signal both before and after irradiation revealed no significant signal degradation.