A 76 dBΩ 1.7 GHz 0.18 μm CMOS tunable TIA using broadband current pre-amplifier for high frequency lateral MEMS oscillators

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 224-235

  Lavasani, Hossein Miri ^a   Pan, Wanling ^a   Harrington, Brandon ^b   Abdolvand, Reza ^b   Ayazi, Farrokh ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bandwidth enhancement; broadband amplifier; current amplifier; MEMS; micromechanical resonator; oscillator; phase noise; piezoelectric resonator; sustaining amplifier; trans impedance amplifier

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH ENHANCEMENT; CURRENT AMPLIFIER; MICROMECHANICAL RESONATOR; OSCILLATOR; PIEZOELECTRIC RESONATORS; SUSTAINING AMPLIFIER; TRANSIMPEDANCE AMPLIFIERS;

BROADBAND AMPLIFIERS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CRYSTAL RESONATORS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); OSCILLATORS (MECHANICAL); PHASE NOISE; PIEZOELECTRICITY; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

DIFFERENTIAL AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 78650918238     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2010.2085890     Document Type: Conference Paper

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