A tunable analog delay element for high-frequency dynamic beamforming

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 345-348

  Gurun, Gokce ^a   Sisman, Alper ^c   Zahorian, Jaime ^a   Satir, Sarp ^a   Karaman, Mustafa ^c   Hasler, Paul ^a   Degertekin, Levent ^a,b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c ISIK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Analog beamforming; Annular array; CMUTs; Tunable delay

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BEAMFORMING; LOW PASS FILTERS; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIERS;

ANALOG BEAMFORMING; ANNULAR ARRAY; CMUTS; HIGH FREQUENCY DYNAMICS; MONOLITHICALLY INTEGRATED; STANDARD CMOS PROCESS; TUNABLE DELAY; VOLTAGE-TO-CURRENT CONVERTERS;

DELAY CIRCUITS;

EID: 77952843042     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2009.5441823     Document Type: Conference Paper

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