The integrated selective readout amplifier for NMOS THz detectors

Author

Kolacinski, Cezary ; Obrebski, Dariusz

Author_Institution

ICs & Syst. Design Dept., Inst. of Electron Technol., Warsaw, Poland

fYear

2014

fDate

19-21 June 2014

Firstpage

272

Lastpage

277

Abstract

This paper presents design and measurement of the integrated readout circuit for NMOS THz detectors. This work is a direct continuation of the previous design, described in [1]. The main improvement - with respect to the former IC - is a modification in the AC amplifier structure. The new circuit still bases on a chopper amplifier architecture, but the selective AC amplifier is used to gain the modulated signal. This results in significant improvement of noise parameters. Designed structure was fabricated in AMS C35 process and measured in the dedicated testing environment.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; choppers (circuits); readout electronics; submillimetre wave amplifiers; submillimetre wave integrated circuits; terahertz wave detectors; AC amplifier structure; AMS C35 process; IC; NMOS THz detectors; chopper amplifier architecture; dedicated testing environment; integrated readout circuit; integrated selective readout amplifier; modulated signal; Choppers (circuits); Demodulation; Equations; Frequency modulation; Integrated circuits; Noise; AMS C35; Chopper Amplifier; Gm-C Filter; Selective Amplifier; Teraherz Detector; Transconductor;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mixed Design of Integrated Circuits & Systems (MIXDES), 2014 Proceedings of the 21st International Conference

Conference_Location

Lublin

Print_ISBN

978-83-63578-03-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MIXDES.2014.6872199

Filename

6872199