DocumentCode :
3682350
Title :
A compact 0.135-mW/channel LNA array for piezoelectric ultrasound transducers
Author :
Chao Chen;Zhao Chen;Zu-yao Chang;Michiel A. P. Pertijs
Author_Institution :
Electronic Instrumentation Laboratory, Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands
fYear :
2015
Firstpage :
404
Lastpage :
407
Abstract :
This paper presents a power- and area-efficient 9-channel LNA array for piezoelectric ultrasound transducers to enable real-time 3D imaging with miniature endoscopic and catheter-based probes. In view of the relatively low impedance of piezoelectric transducers, the LNA is implemented as a capacitive feedback voltage amplifier, rather than a trans-impedance amplifier, to achieve a better noise-power trade-off. The use of a current-efficient inverter-based OTA with optimized bias scheme and dual-rail regulation further improves the power efficiency of the LNA while keeping the area compact: 0.01 mm2 per channel. Electrical and acoustic measurement results show that the proposed LNA achieves a 0.6 mPa/√Hz input-referred noise at 4 MHz while consuming only 0.135 mW, which represents a noise efficiency 2.5 × better than the state-of-the-art.
Keywords :
"Arrays","Noise","Transducers","Ultrasonic imaging","Capacitors","Gain","Imaging"
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), ESSCIRC 2015 - 41st
ISSN :
1930-8833
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-7470-5
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/ESSCIRC.2015.7313913
Filename :
7313913
Link To Document :
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