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. 2011 Aug 11;11(8):7892–7907. doi: 10.3390/s110807892

Table 3.

Calculated Thermal Resistances and Capacitances.

Symbol Description Values
Apoly Area of the Polysilicon resistor 5.93 × 10−11 m2
Aox Area of the Polysilicon resistor 1.37 × 10−10 m2
WAl Area of the oxide 13.4 × 10−6 m
LAl Width of the metal 10.2 × 10−6 m
RTpoly Thermal resistance of polysilicon layer 233 K/W
RTSiO2 Thermal resistance of silicon dioxide layer 1.2 × 104 K/W
RTAl Thermal resistance of aluminum layer 4.6 × 103 K/W
CTpoly Thermal capacitance of polysilicon layer 3.88 × 10−11 J/K
CTSiO2 Thermal capacitance of silicon dioxide layer 3.80 × 10−10 J/K
CTAl Thermal capacitance of aluminum layer 2.32 × 10−10 J/K
RT Total thermal resistance 1.7 × 104 K/W
CT Total thermal capacitance 3.1 × 10−11 J/K