Transimpedance amplifier for high sensitivity current measurements on nanodevices

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1609-1616

  Ferrari, Giorgio ^a   Gozzini, Fabio ^b   Molari, Alessandro ^c   Sampietro, Marco ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b Mindspeed Technologies   (France)

^c Volterra Semiconductor   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Active resistor; High sensitivity instrumentation; Instrument on chip; Transimpedance amplifier

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CURRENT; ACTIVE RESISTOR; CAPACITANCE VARIATION; CO-PRESENT; CURRENT DIRECTION; CURRENT MEASUREMENTS; DC CURRENT; DEVICE UNDER TEST; DIFFERENTIATOR; EQUIVALENT RESISTANCE; FEED-BACK LOOP; HIGH LINEARITY; HIGH SENSITIVITY; HIGH SENSITIVITY INSTRUMENTATION; IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY MEASUREMENTS; LOW NOISE; M-TECHNOLOGIES; MILLER COMPENSATION; NANO SCALE; NANO-DEVICES; NOISE CURRENT; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PHYSIOLOGICAL MEDIUM; SENSING CURRENTS; SIGNAL DYNAMIC RANGE; SINGLE-CHIP; STANDARD CMOS; STRONG STABILITY; TRANSIMPEDANCE AMPLIFIER; TRANSIMPEDANCE AMPLIFIERS;

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC CURRENT MEASUREMENT; INSTRUMENTS; MEASUREMENTS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; RESISTORS;

DIFFERENTIAL AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 66149148735     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2009.2016998     Document Type: Conference Paper

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