Patent ID: 8299577

Claim:
A capacitor formed on a semiconductor, the capacitor comprising: a top plate and a bottom plate, with a capacitance of the capacitor developed between the top plate and the bottom plate; one or more layers of conductive strips forming the capacitor, wherein for each pair of neighboring conductive strips within each of the one or more layers of conductive strips: a first conductive strip of the pair of neighboring conductive strips is coupled to the top plate and not to the bottom plate; and a second conductive strip of the pair of neighboring conductive strips is coupled to the bottom plate and not to the top plate; and a low-impedance conductive layer configured beneath a bottom layer of the one or more layers of conductive strips, and spanning an area underneath conductive strips coupled to the top plate and conductive strips coupled to the bottom plate, wherein the low-impedance conductive layer and the top plate are configured to respectively couple to opposite ends of a bypass circuit to force a voltage potential developed at the low-impedance conductive layer to move identically to a voltage potential developed at the top plate, to reduce charge transfers from the top plate to the low-impedance conductive layer.