236 results about "Effective capacitance" patented technology

A one transistor (1T-RAM) bit cell and method for manufacture are provided. A metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitor structure and method of manufacturing it in an integrated process that includes a finFET transistor for the 1T-RAM bit cell is provided. In some embodiments, the finFET transistor and MIM capacitor are formed in a memory region and an asymmetric processing method is disclosed, which allows planar MOSFET transistors to be formed in another region of a single device. In some embodiments, the 1T-RAM cell and additional transistors may be combined to form a macro cell, multiple macro cells may form an integrated circuit. The MIM capacitors may include nanoparticles or nanostructures to increase the effective capacitance. The finFET transistors may be formed over an insulator. The MIM capacitors may be formed in interlevel insulator layers above the substrate. The process provided to manufacture the structure may advantageously use conventional photomasks.

The invention relates to a mutual capacitance-type touch screen and a combined mutual capacitance-type touch screen which is combined by the mutual capacitance-type touch screen. The mutual capacitance-type touch screen comprises a driving layer (200) and a sensing layer (300), wherein the driving layer (200) comprises drive electrodes (210) which are alternately distributed on the same plane; the sensing layer (300) comprises sensing electrodes (310) which are alternately distributed on the same plane; the sensing electrodes (310) are distributed in areas in the sensing layer (300) and the driving layer (200) facing to mutual gap areas of the drive electrodes (210); and the drive electrodes (210) and the sensing electrodes (310) are filled into a touch area (110) of the touch screen together. The space positions of the drive electrodes and the sensing electrodes are not opposite, thereby improving the proportion of capacitances CT formed between tops of the drive electrodes and the sensing electrodes in a mutual capacitance C and effectively increasing the effective inductive capacity of the mutual capacitance-type touch screen.

A biosensor apparatus and method with sample type and cell volume detection. The apparatus includes a sine wave generator to apply an AC signal to a biosensor cell containing a sample, a current-to-voltage converter, a phase shifter, a square wave generator, a synchronous demodulator, and a low pass filter which yields a signal proportional to the effective capacitance across the biosensor cell, which is proportional to the volume of the sample. In addition, the current-to-voltage converter yields a signal indicative of the type of sample contained within the biosensor cell. The method includes applying a sine wave to the biosensor cell, shifting the phase of the resultant signal, generating a square wave synchronous with the sine wave, demodulating the resultant signal with the square wave, and filtering the demodulated signal to produce a signal proportional to the effective capacitance across the biosensor cell. The biosensor apparatus and method are capable of determining sample type and measuring glucose levels over a wide range of sample volumes.

A connector is provided for simultaneously improving both the NEXT high frequency performance when low crosstalk plugs are used and the NEXT low frequency performance when high crosstalk plugs are used. The connector includes a first compensation structure provided on an inner metalized layer of the PCB at a first stage area of the PCB, and a second compensation structure, provided at a second stage area of the PCB, for increasing compensation capacitance with increasing frequency.

Systems, methods and apparatus for regulating ion energies and ion energy distributions along with calibrating a bias source and a plasma processing chamber are disclosed. An exemplary method includes applying a periodic voltage function to a load emulator, which emulates electrical characteristics of a plasma load and associated electronics such as an e-chuck. The load emulator can be measured for various electrical parameters and compared to expected parameters generated by the bias source. Differences between measured and expected values can be used to identify and correct faults and abnormalities in the bias supply, the chamber, or a power source used to ignite and sustain the plasma. Once the bias supply is calibrated, the chamber can be calibrated by measuring and calculating an effective capacitance comprising a series and parallel capacitance of the substrate support and optionally the substrate.

The compensation switched capacitor circuit includes a switched capacitor circuit and a compensation circuit. The compensation circuit generates a reference current that varies under closed loop control to maintain a target slew rate determined by the frequency of the input clock for charging the reference capacitor. The output amplifier of the switched capacitor circuit is configured such that its output current varies proportionally to the reference current. Thus, by configuring the reference capacitor to track the effective capacitance of the switched capacitor circuit, the settling time of the switched capacitor circuit can be made relatively insensitive to the value and variation of the effective capacitance over the clock frequency range. The compensation circuit may include a clock reconditioning circuit that clocks the switched capacitor circuit at a desired duty cycle.