CMOS ultrasound range-finder microsystem

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 2005-2017

  Kuratli, Christoph ^a,b   Huang, Qiuting ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Bernafon Company   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROSENSORS; PHASE LOCKED LOOPS; SILICON; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS;

MICROSYSTEMS;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 0034476163     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/4.890317     Document Type: Article

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