Low-Voltage SOI CMOS VLSI Devices and Circuits

Acknowledgments

This book is dedicated to the memory of Professor Chih-Chin Ma, who passed away January 2001. We would like to thank all of their teachers from kindergarten to graduate school and would like to express our gratitude to Professor Chih-Chin Ma of NTUEE for his encouragement during the past 28 years. The authors would like to thank Professor Robert W. Dutton at Stanford for his encouragement during the past 20 years, and Professors Hwei-Chung Yu, Powen Hsu, Way-Seen Wang, and Hsu-Chun Yen for their consistent encouragement during the past 14 years. We would like to express our appreciation to our colleagues in Taiwan for their support in the past and would also like to express our gratitude to colleagues at University of Waterloo, Canada for providing us with the opportunity to finish this book. Special thanks to Professors Anthony Vannelli, Arokia Nathan, and Suject K. Chaudhuri for their support and encouragement. The author would like to thank his students-Mr. C. H. Chang, Mr. I. J. Chen, Mr. T. Y. Chiang, Mr. F. A. Wu, Mr. C. L. Young, Mr. Y. T. Chang, Mr. H. H. Chen, Mr. P. C. Chen, and Mr. H. K. Sung for their intensive help drawings. We would like to thank Dr. K. W. Su for his help during the initial phase of this work. We would like to thank Mr. George Telecki, Mr. Andrew Prince, and Ms. Angioline Loredo of Wiley-Interscience for their help in making this book a reality.