CMOS low current measurement system for biomedical applications

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 111-119

  Goldstein, Brian ^a   Kim, Dongsoo ^a,b   Xu, Jian ^a   Vanderlick, T Kyle ^a   Culurciello, Eugenio ^c  

^a Yale University   (United States)

^b Aptina Imaging Corporation   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amperometry; biomedical measurements; capacitive feedback; current measurement; integrator; low current measurement system; low noise circuit; noise analysis; potentiostat; voltage clamp

Indexed keywords

AMPEROMETRY; BIOMEDICAL MEASUREMENTS; CAPACITIVE FEEDBACK; INTEGRATOR; LOW CURRENT MEASUREMENTS; LOW NOISE; NOISE ANALYSIS; POTENTIOSTATS; VOLTAGE-CLAMP;

BANDWIDTH; CELL MEMBRANES; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CYTOLOGY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXPERIMENTS; LIPID BILAYERS; MEASUREMENTS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

ELECTRIC CURRENT MEASUREMENT;

METAL; OXIDE;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EQUIPMENT; HUMAN; LIPID BILAYER; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; SEMICONDUCTOR;

AMPLIFIERS, ELECTRONIC; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; HUMANS; LIPID BILAYERS; METALS; OXIDES; SEMICONDUCTORS;

EID: 84862817792     PISSN: 19324545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBCAS.2011.2182512     Document Type: Conference Paper

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