Limitations of a relaxation oscillator in capacitance measurements

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 980-983

  Liu, Yili ^b   Chen, Song ^b   Nakayama, Masakatsu ^b   Watanabe, Kenzo ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CAPACITANCE MEASUREMENT; CIRCUIT OSCILLATIONS; COMPARATOR CIRCUITS; INTEGRATING CIRCUITS; OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIERS; SENSORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

GAIN BANDWIDTH PRODUCT; SLEW RATE;

RELAXATION OSCILLATORS;

EID: 0034296076     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/19.872917     Document Type: Article

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