An ultra-low noise Switched Capacitor Transimpedance Amplifier for parallel Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

Proceedings of IEEE Sensors

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Tang, Yingying ^a   Zhang, Yang ^a   Fedder, Gary K ^a,b   Carley, L Richard ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CMOS-MEMS; CORRELATED DOUBLE SAMPLING; CURRENT SENSING; LARGE ARRAYS; MULTICHANNEL IMAGING; NOISE FLOOR; PROBE ARRAY; SWITCHED CAPACITOR; TRANS-IMPEDANCE GAIN; TRANSIMPEDANCE AMPLIFIERS; TUNNEL CURRENTS; TUNNELING CURRENT;

CAPACITORS; PROBES; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SENSORS;

DIFFERENTIAL AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 84873978984     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSENS.2012.6411083     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (8)

1. G. Schitter, M. Rost, "Scanning Tunneling Microscopy at Video-rate", Materials Today 2008, vol. 11, pp 40-48.
2. J. A. Stroscio, D. M. Eigler, "Atomic and molecular manipulation with the scanning tunneling microscope", Science, vol. 254, pp. 1319-1326, 1991.
3. P. Vettiger, G. Cross, M. Despont, U. Drechsler, U. Durig, B. Gotsmann, W. haberle, M. A. Lantz, H. E. Rothuizen, R. Stutz, G. K. Binnig, "The "Millipede"-Nanotechnology Entering Data Storage", IEEE Trans. Nanotechnol., 1, 39, 2002
4. Y. Zhang, J. Wang, S. Santhanam, G. K. Fedder, "Active CMOS-MEMS conductive probes and arrays for tunneling based atomic-level surface imaging", Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Conference (TRANSDUCERS), 2011 16th International, pp 2446 - 2449, 2011
5. S. V. Iyer, H. Lakdawala, R. S. Sinha, E. J. Zacherl, R. T. Unetich, D. M. Guillou, L. R. Carley, "A 0.5mm2 integrated capacitive vibration sensor with sub-10 zF/rt-Hz noise floor", Custom Integtrated Circuits Conference, Proceedings of the IEEE 2005, pp 93-96, Sept. 2005.
6. J. Salvia, P. Lajevardi, M. Hekmat, and B. Murman, "A 56M CMOS TIA for MEMS Applications", IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, 2009, pp199-202
7. A. Sharma, M.F. Zaman, F. Ayazi, "A 104-dB dynamic range transimpedance-based CMOS ASIC for tuning fork microgyroscopes,", IEEE J. Solid State Circuits, vol. 42, no. 8, pp. 1790-1802, Aug. 2007.
8. G. Ferrari, F. Gozzini, A. Molari, and M. Sampietro A. Sharma, "Transimpedance amplifier for high sensitivity current measurements on nanodevices,", IEEE J. Solid State Circuits, vol. 44, no. 5, pp. 1609-1616, May 2009.