Floating-gate based CMUT sensing circuit using capacitive feedback charge amplifier

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 2425-2428

  Peng, Sheng Yu ^a   Qureshi, Muhammad S ^a   Basu, Arindam ^a   Guldiken, Rasim O ^a   Degertekin, F L ^a   Hasler, Paul E ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE VARIATION; CAPACITIVE FEEDBACK; CAPACITIVE SENSING; CHANNEL HOT ELECTRON INJECTION; CHARGE AMPLIFIERS; CHARGING EFFECT; CMOS PROCESSS; CMUT SENSING CIRCUIT; CONVENTIONAL APPROACH; FLOATING NODES; FLOATING-GATES; FOWLER-NORDHEIM TUNNELING; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND IMAGING; MEASUREMENT RESULTS; OIL BATHS; OPEN-LOOP CONFIGURATION; OUTPUT VOLTAGES; PLANAR TARGET; POWER CONSUMPTION; PULSE ECHOES; RING ARRAYS; TRANSIMPEDANCE AMPLIFIERS;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DIFFERENTIAL AMPLIFIERS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONICS;

BANDPASS FILTERS;

EID: 40549101466     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2006.606     Document Type: Conference Paper

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