Front-end receiver electronics for high-frequency monolithic CMUT-on-CMOS imaging arrays

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 58, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1658-1668

  Gurun, Gokce ^a   Hasler, Paul ^a   Degertekin, F Levent ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIER GAIN; ARRAY ELEMENTS; CAPACITIVE MICROMACHINED ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCER; CMOS PROCESSS; CMOS RECEIVERS; CURRENT NOISE; DYNAMIC RANGE; FRONT-END RECEIVER; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; HIGH-GAIN; IMAGING ARRAYS; INTEGRATED SYSTEMS; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND IMAGING; LOW NOISE; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATION; NOISE SPECTRA; PARASITICS; PULSE ECHOES; SINGLE-CHIP; SYSTEM OPERATION; TRANSIMPEDANCE AMPLIFIERS;

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; BANDWIDTH; DESIGN; DIFFERENTIAL AMPLIFIERS; OPTIMIZATION; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 80052043902     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2011.1993     Document Type: Article

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