Design criteria of low-power oscillators for consumer-grade MEMS resonant sensors

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 567-574

  Langfelder, Giacomo ^a   Caspani, Alessandro ^a   Tocchio, Alessandro ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b STMICROELECTRONICS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Accelerometers; low power circuits; microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) sensors; resonators; transimpedance amplifier (TIA)

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETERS; CAPACITIVE SENSORS; DIFFERENTIAL AMPLIFIERS; MEMS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; MICROMECHANICS; RESONATORS; SENSORS;

CONSUMER APPLICATIONS; EQUIVALENT RESISTANCE; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT IMPLEMENTATION; LOW-POWER CIRCUIT; MECHANICAL NONLINEARITIES; MICRO ELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEM (MEMS); RESONANT ACCELEROMETER; TRANSIMPEDANCE AMPLIFIERS;

LOW POWER ELECTRONICS;

EID: 84880910404     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2013.2247233     Document Type: Article

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