• DocumentCode
    3633880
  • Title

    An oscilloscope array for high-impedance device characterization

  • Author

    Fred Chen;Anantha Chandrakasan;Vladimir Stojanovic

  • Author_Institution
    Department of Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
  • fYear
    2009
  • Firstpage
    112
  • Lastpage
    115
  • Abstract
    An equivalent time oscilloscope array is implemented in a 90nm CMOS technology. A combination of adjustable termination, calibration circuitry and capacitance compensation enables driver bandwidths between 0.4 to 2GHz for termination impedances of 20Ω to 2kΩ for extraction of S-parameters and delay characteristics of high impedance devices such as carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and graphene. Measurement results show that the capacitance compensation technique enhances the bandwidth by 3X for impedances between 2kΩ and 20kΩ.
  • Keywords
    "Oscilloscopes","Impedance","CMOS technology","Capacitance","Bandwidth","Calibration","Driver circuits","Scattering parameters","Delay","Carbon nanotubes"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    ESSCIRC, 2009. ESSCIRC ´09. Proceedings of
  • ISSN
    1930-8833
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-4355-0;978-1-4244-4354-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ESSCIRC.2009.5325935
  • Filename
    5325935