Design of chopper-stabilized amplifiers with reduced offset for sensor applications

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1968-1980

  Chan, P K ^a   Cui, J ^a,b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Analog integrated circuit; Chopper stabilized amplifier; Differential difference amplifier (DDA); MOS analog switch; Precision amplifier; Sensor amplifier

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; BANDPASS AMPLIFIERS; CHOPPER AMPLIFIERS; CHOPPERS (CIRCUITS); CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DIFFERENTIAL AMPLIFIERS; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; LINEAR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIERS; SENSORS; SWITCHING CIRCUITS;

ANALOG INTEGRATED CIRCUIT; CHOPPER-STABILIZED AMPLIFIER; DIFFERENTIAL DIFFERENCE AMPLIFIER (DDA); MOS ANALOG SWITCH; PRECISION AMPLIFIER; SENSOR AMPLIFIER;

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC);

EID: 55949119528     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2008.2006446     Document Type: Article

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