A Silicon-Based Closed-Loop 256-Pixel Near-Field Capacitive Sensing Array with 3-ppm Sensitivity and Selectable Frequency Shift Gain
A Silicon-Based Closed-Loop 256-Pixel Near-Field Capacitive Sensing Array with 3-ppm Sensitivity and Selectable Frequency Shift Gain
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具有 3 ppm 灵敏度和可选频移增益的硅基闭环 256 像素近场电容传感阵列
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2020
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Mau
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作者:
Jia Zhou;Chia;Christopher Chen;Jieqiong Du;R. Huang;R. Al Hadi;J. Hwang;Mau
This paper presents a two-dimensional capacitive sensor circuit implemented in 28-nm silicon technology for material characterization. The circuit is based on a 4.5-GHz quadrature oscillator with a single inductor and distributed capacitor array with 12.6-um pitch. The 16×16 sensor array is designed with minimal signal energy loss to enable scalable designs. The quadrature oscillator is embedded in a trans-linear loop for frequency shift amplification up to 36 times with an acquisition bandwidth of 2.4 MHz. The readout time for single pixel drops below the limit set by the quantization noise floor and reaches near optimal window, while the sensor maintains a sensitivity of 3 ppm. A mixer is used to down-convert the high-frequency component to an intermediate frequency. A digital core is used to acquire and process the data.
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10.1109/cicc.2019.8780363
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2019
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IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC
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Tang H, Venkatesh S
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Tang H, Venkatesh S