A fully differential CMOS capacitance sensor design, testing and array architecture

Proceedings - IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 165-168

  Prakash, Somashekar Bangalore ^a   Abshire, Pamela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; CAPACITANCE; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; DIFFERENTIAL AMPLIFIERS; ELECTRODES; MICROELECTRODES; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); RAILS; SENSORS; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

ARRAY ARCHITECTURES; FULLY DIFFERENTIAL; INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM;

PIXELS;

EID: 51749102440     PISSN: 02714310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISCAS.2008.4541380     Document Type: Conference Paper

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