Subthreshold transistor operation for a high sensitivity capacitive sensor

Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1671-1674

  Miled, Mohamed Amine ^a   Sawan, Mohamad ^a  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Capacitive sensor; Low power circuits; Sensor sensitivity; Subthreshold region

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; CHEMICAL SENSORS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; NANOFLUIDICS; SENSORS; TECHNOLOGY;

CAPACITANCE VARIATIONS; CAPACITIVE SENSOR; CAPACITIVE SENSORS; CMOS TECHNOLOGIES; ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING; HIGH SENSITIVITIES; HIGHLY SENSITIVE; INTER-DIGITATED ELECTRODES; LAB-ON CHIP; LOW POWER CIRCUITS; LOW POWERS; MICRO-FLUIDIC; POWER CONSUMPTION; SENSOR SENSITIVITY; SUB-THRESHOLD TRANSISTOR; SUBTHRESHOLD REGION;

PHOTORESISTS;

EID: 51849106607     PISSN: 08407789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CCECE.2008.4564827     Document Type: Conference Paper

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