DocumentCode
85029
Title
Nanopore-application CMOS potentiostat design with input parasitic compensation
Author
Jungsuk Kim ; Dunbar, W.B.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Biomed. Eng., Gachon Univ., Incheon, South Korea
Volume
50
Issue
8
fYear
2014
fDate
April 10 2014
Firstpage
578
Lastpage
579
Abstract
A low-noise area-efficient potentiostat design for nanopore applications is presented. By adopting a cascode amplifier and a Wilson current mirror, the input resistance is drastically decreased, which enables one to obtain a desirable bandwidth to detect DNA translocation events in nanopore sensors. A novel compensation technique is also proposed to relieve a deleterious effect by the input parasitic capacitances.
Keywords
DNA; biological techniques; capacitance; compensation; current mirrors; molecular biophysics; nanobiotechnology; nanosensors; DNA translocation event detection; Wilson current mirror; cascode amplifier; compensation technique; input parasitic capacitances; input resistance; low-noise area-efficient potentiostat design; nanopore applications; nanopore sensors;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Electronics Letters
Publisher
iet
ISSN
0013-5194
Type
jour
DOI
10.1049/el.2014.0049
Filename
6802140
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