A CMOS microcoil-associated preamplifier for NMR spectroscopy

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2576-2583

  Cherifi, Tewfik ^a   Abouchi, Nacer ^a,b   Lu, Guo Neng ^a   Bouchet Fakri, Latifa ^a,c   Quiquerez, Laurent ^a   Sorli, B ^a   Chateaux, Jean François ^a   Pitaval, M ^a   Morin, P ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b CPE LYON   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Current conveyor; In field preamplifier; Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) active probe; Receiver micro coil

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; IMPEDANCE MATCHING (ELECTRIC); MAGNETIC FIELDS; MOSFET DEVICES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OPTIMIZATION;

IN-FIELD PREAMPLIFIER; SECOND GENERATION POSITIVE CURRENT CONVEYOR;

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC);

EID: 29344449127     PISSN: 10577122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2005.857870     Document Type: Article

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