A charge-based low-power high-SNR capacitive sensing interface circuit

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1863-1872

  Peng, Sheng Yu ^a   Qureshi, Muhammad S ^a   Hasler, Paul E ^a   Basu, Arindam ^a   Degertekin, F Levent ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Capacitive circuit; Capacitive sensing circuit; Channel hot electron injection; Charge amplifier; Floating gate circuit; Fowler Nordheim tunneling; MEMS microphone interface circuit

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON INJECTION; FEEDBACK; FEEDBACK AMPLIFIERS; FIELD EMISSION; HOT ELECTRONS; LOW POWER ELECTRONICS; MICROPHONES; TIMING CIRCUITS; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

CAPACITIVE CIRCUITS; CAPACITIVE SENSING CIRCUITS; CHANNEL HOT ELECTRON INJECTION; CHARGE AMPLIFIERS; FLOATING GATE CIRCUITS; MEMS MICROPHONE;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

EID: 50549087217     PISSN: 10577122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2008.918006     Document Type: Article

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