A CMOS integrable oscillator-based front end for high-dynamic-range resistive sensors

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 57, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1596-1604

  De Marcellis, Andrea ^a   Depari, Alessandro ^b   Ferri, Giuseppe ^a   Flammini, Alessandra ^b   Marioli, Daniele ^b   Stornelli, Vincenzo ^a   Taroni, Andrea ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^c CREMS Centre for Research on Health Economics Social and Health Care Management Carlo Cattaneo University LIUC   (Italy)

Author keywords

Complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) sensor interfaces; Gas sensors; Metal oxide (MOX) sensors; Resistance and capacitance estimation; Wide range sensor variation

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; CHEMICAL SENSORS; ESTIMATION; HEALTH; METALS; SENSORS; STANDARDS;

FRONT END; HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE (HDR); LOW POWERS; METAL OXIDE SENSORS; PARALLEL CAPACITANCES; PARASITIC CAPACITANCES; PASSIVE COMPONENTS; PERCENTAGE ERROR; RESISTIVE SENSOR (RS); STANDARD CMOS TECHNOLOGY; WIDE-RANGE;

DETECTORS;

EID: 48749119988     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2008.922075     Document Type: Article

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