Design and Implementation of ultralow current-mode amplifier for biosensor applications

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs

Volumn 56, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 540-544

  Zhang, Lei ^a   Yu, Zhiping ^a   He, Xiangqing ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bandwidth; Integrated biosensing system (IBS); Mismatch; Noise; Offset; Subthreshold; Ultralow current mode amplifier (ULCA)

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BIOSENSORS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

CURRENT MODE; INTEGRATED BIOSENSING SYSTEMS; MISMATCH; NOISE; OFFSET; SUBTHRESHOLD;

INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DESIGN;

EID: 68249159993     PISSN: 15497747     EISSN: 15583791     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSII.2009.2022206     Document Type: Article

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