A 0.18 μ m biosensor front-end based on 1/f noise, distortion cancelation and chopper stabilization techniques

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 660-673

  Balasubramanian, Viswanathan ^a,b   Ruedi, Pierre Francois ^a   Temiz, Yuksel ^b   Ferretti, Anna ^b   Guiducci, Carlotta ^b   Enz, Christian C ^a,b  

^a CSEM   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

1 f noise; chopping; current mode electrochemical biosensor; distortion canceling; low noise; low power; noise canceling; strong inversion; transimpedance front end (read out); weak inversion

Indexed keywords

1/ F NOISE; CHOPPING; ELECTROCHEMICAL BIOSENSOR; LOW NOISE; LOW POWER; NOISE CANCELING; STRONG INVERSION; TRANSIMPEDANCE; WEAK INVERSIONS;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY; DIFFERENTIAL AMPLIFIERS; SENSORS;

BIOSENSORS;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GENETIC PROCEDURES; NOISE;

AMPLIFIERS, ELECTRONIC; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; NOISE;

EID: 84887426373     PISSN: 19324545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBCAS.2012.2234121     Document Type: Article

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