Microelectronics, Volume. 55, Issue 1, 46(2025)

A Radiation-hardening and Wide-input-range Bandgap Reference

LI Chengxin1, LUO Ping1,2, FENG Jiekai1, GONG Zheng1, LUO Kai3, and YAO Fulin3
Author Affiliations
  • 1State Key Lab. Of Elec. Thin Films and Integr. Dev., Univ. of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, P. R. China
  • 2College of Computer Sci. and Technol., National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, P. R. China
  • 3The 24th Research Institute of China Electronics Technology Group Corporation, Chongqing, 400060, P. R. China
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    A radiation-hardening, wide-input-range bandgap reference is designed based on the study of the degradation mechanism of bandgap reference circuits in radiation environments. The design enables the circuit to operate at higher voltages by establishing internal power rails and uses the fork-finger structure of MOS devices to effectively isolate the Shallow Trench Isolation (STI) region from the active region, thereby hardening the reference core against Total Ionizing Dose (TID). Additionally, a Dynamic Load Tracking (DLT) technique is proposed to address the effects of Single Event Transients (SET) on the reference circuit. The output filtering, pass transistor gate filtering, and DLT technique are all applied to enhance SET resilience. The circuit is designed using a 0.18 μm 40 V BCD process, and simulation results show that the circuit can operate within a voltage range of 6 to 40 V. The PN junction current variation of the forked-finger structure under maximum trapped charge concentration is reduced by 27% compared to that of the single-finger structure, and the SET pulse amplitude is reduced by 80% compared to the non-hardened design.

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    LI Chengxin, LUO Ping, FENG Jiekai, GONG Zheng, LUO Kai, YAO Fulin. A Radiation-hardening and Wide-input-range Bandgap Reference[J]. Microelectronics, 2025, 55(1): 46

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    Received: Jul. 15, 2024

    Accepted: Jun. 19, 2025

    Published Online: Jun. 19, 2025

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    DOI:10.13911/j.cnki.1004-3365.240238

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