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Mosfet capacitance Model:


At mosfet, the charges stored at the gate electrode, conducting channel and at the depletion
layers.
We models this stored charges as a parasitic capacitance as in the next figure:

This lumped capacitance model from 1971 is somewhat partial. For this reason the charge
conservation is not strictly enforced, resulting a minor error in circuit simulations.
Capacitance model:
We split the mosfet capacitance into the three lumped capacitances:
, , ,
| , | , |
gd gb gs gb gd gs
g g g
gs V V V V gb V V
gs gd g
gd
b
Q Q Q
C C C
V V V
c c c
= = =
c c c



These 3 gate capacitance reflects the inversion charge and the depletion charge.
We can now write:
Gi Gd G
Q Q Q = + ,
Gi
Q - Gate invertion charge ,
Gd
Q -Gate depletion
charge.
We will also assume for this model that the C
GS
and C
GD
dominated by the inversion charge.
We calculate
Gi
Q :
For the mosfet channel we could approximately write that charge per unit area as:
( )
s i T
qn c V V ~ (this is because we can assume that in high frequency a mosfet
capacitance in similar to mos low frequency capacitance , means c
i
).
So in order to calculate the charge we intergrate on the channel area, remembering that in
the W dimention the charge is mostly the same, and that the voltage at the channel is
depended on the x position(the position in the channel):
| |
0 0 0
( )
w L
Gi i GS
L
s T
Q qn dxdy Wc V V V x dx = =


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We should notices the following: we assume zero drain source bias and that we have
inversion at the entire length of the channel. In addition we add the ( ) V x which implies
that the voltage on the channel is the dependent at the voltage at point X.
We continue develop the equation:
| | | |
( )
2 2
2
0 0
3
2 3
2
2
| |
( ( ))
( ) ( ( )) ( )
1
( )
3
: ( )
2
DS
i i
ds n S
n i GT
ds
i n
Gi i GS T n i GT GT
ds ds
n
i GT D
L
S GS T
ds
n i DS
V
ds
C c WL
GS T DS
i
I W qn E
dV
dx W c V V x
I
W c dV
Q Wc V V V x W c V V x V V x dV
I I
C V V V V
I L
W c V
For Linear state I V V V
L
C
u
u
u
u
u
u
=
=
=
= = =

=

| |
=
|
\ .

n
Wu
n
Wu
i
C
L
( )
( )
3
3
3
3
2
2
2
( ) 1
( ) (*)
3 3
( )
( )
2
2
(1) :
(2) : 2( )( ) ( ) 2
GT DS GS T i
GT DS GS T
DS
DS
GS T DS
GS T DS
DS G G D S GS GD
GS T GS GD GS GD
V V V V C
V V V V
V
V
V V V
L V V V
V V V V V V V
V V V V V V


= =

| |


|
\ .
= + =
=
2
2
GS GS GD
V V V
2
2 2
GS T T GD GS
V V V V V + 2
GS GD
V V +
( )
2
2 2
3
3 3 3
2
2 2
2 2
2 ( 2 )
( ) 2 ( ) ( ) 2
(*)
3 2( )( ) ( ) 3 ( ) ( )
GD
GS GS T GD T GD
GT DS GS T i GS T GD T
i
GS T GS GD GS GD GS T GD T
T T
V
V V V V V V
V V V V C V V V V
C
V V V V V V V V V
V V
V
=
= + +

= =



From here we derive the gate charge by the relevance voltage and we getting the following
equations:
2 2
2 2
1 , 1 , 0
3 2 3 2
GT DS GT
GS i i GB
GT DS GT DS
GD
V V V
C C C C C
V V V V

| | | |
= = =
| |


\ . \ .


Now if you will take under consideration for saturation that
DS
V is the voltage of saturation
(not velocity saturation), then we get :
2
, 0 , 0
3
GS i GD GB
C C C C = = = .
And for linear state we can take 0
DS
V = and we get 0.5 , 0.5 , 0
SD i GD i GB
C C C C C = = = .

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