A Free But Efficient Low-Voltage Class-AB Two-Stage Operational Amplifier

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 568-571

  Ramírez Angulo, Jaime ^a   Carvajal, Ramón G ^b   Galán, Juan A ^c   López Martín, Antonio ^d  

^a New Mexico State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HUELVA   (Spain)

^d PUBLIC UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Analog integrated circuits; Class AB amplifier; low voltage analog circuits; operational amplifiers

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL;

ANALOG INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; BOOSTING FACTOR; CIRCUIT COMPLEXITY; CLASS-AB AMPLIFIERS; LOW-VOLTAGE ANALOG CIRCUITS; OUTPUT CURRENT;

OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 33746435377     PISSN: 15497747     EISSN: 15583791     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSII.2006.875320     Document Type: Article

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