Thermal mechanical noise based characterization of CMUTs using monolithically integrated low noise receiver electronics

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 567-570

  Gurun, Gokce ^a   Zahorian, Jaime ^a   Hasler, Paul ^a   Degertekin, Levent ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

CMUT noise; electronics integration

Indexed keywords

A-THERMAL; ARRAY ELEMENTS; CMUT NOISE; DC BIAS; DETECTION SYSTEM; ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE; FORWARD LOOKING; INTEGRATED SYSTEMS; LOW NOISE RECEIVERS; MECHANICAL NOISE; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATION; MONOLITHICALLY INTEGRATED; NOISE MEASUREMENTS; NOISE SPECTRA; PARASITICS; RESONANCE FREQUENCIES; SYSTEM NOISE; TRANSDUCER NOISE; TRANSIMPEDANCE AMPLIFIERS; VOLUMETRIC IMAGING;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; DIFFERENTIAL AMPLIFIERS; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; RESONANCE; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; ULTRASONICS; WATER TANKS;

ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 80054013235     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2010.5935987     Document Type: Conference Paper

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