high-voltage charge pumps

All-pMOS 50-V charge pumps using low-voltage capacitors

1 min read · Fri, Apr 27 2012

high-voltage charge pumps

Ahmed Emira, et al., "All-pMOS 50-V charge pumps using low-voltage capacitors." IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics 60, no. 10 (2012): 4683-4693. In this paper, two high-voltage charge pumps (CPs) are introduced. In order to minimize the area of the pumping capacitors, which dominates the overall area of the CP, high-density capacitors have been utilized. Nonetheless, these high-density capacitors suffer from low breakdown voltage, which is not compatible with the targeted high-voltage application. To circumvent the breakdown limitation, a special clocking scheme is used to limit the