A Low-Power Wireless Piezoelectric Sensor-Based Respiration Monitoring System Realized in CMOS Process

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 1858-1864

  Mahbub, Ifana ^a   Pullano, Salvatore Andrea ^b   Wang, Hanfeng ^a   Islam, Syed Kamrul ^a   Fiorillo, Antonino S ^b   To, Gary ^c   Mahfouz, M R ^c  

^a University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

^b University Magna Græ Cia of Catanzaro   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

charge amplifier; Continuous respiration monitoring; IR UWB transmitter; piezoelectricity; pipelined ADC; PVDF

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DATA HANDLING; DATA TRANSFER; LOW POWER ELECTRONICS; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; PIEZOELECTRICITY; RADIO FREQUENCY AMPLIFIERS; RADIO TRANSMISSION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TRANSDUCERS; TRANSMITTERS; ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB); VOLTAGE MEASUREMENT; WEARABLE SENSORS; WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY;

CHARGE AMPLIFIERS; PIPELINED ADCS; PVDF; RESPIRATION MONITORING; UWB TRANSMITTER;

MONITORING;

EID: 85015209668     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2017.2651073     Document Type: Article

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