Due to their high stiffness, small dimensions, and low mass, piezoelectric stack actuators are capable of developing large displacements over bandwidths of greater than 100 kHz. However, due to their large electrical capacitance, the associated driving amplifier is usually limited in bandwidth to a few kilohertz or less. In this paper the limiting characteristics of piezoelectric drives are ide...

A CMOS self-biased fully differential amplifier is presented. Due to the self-biasing structure of the amplifier and its associated negative feedback, the amplifier is compensated to achieve low sensitivity to process, supply voltage and temperature (PVT) variations. The output common-mode voltage of the amplifier is adjusted through the same biasing voltages provided by the common-mode feedbac...

An effective current scaling method with source degenerated resistors proposed in the design of Bulk-Driven Folded-Cascode (BDFC) amplifier. The transconductance of the amplifier significantly vary with the common mode voltage. A 0.5V efficient Band Pass Filter (BPF) using bulk driven Operational Trans conductance amplifier (OTA) is designed for detection of QRS complex in ECG signal 17Hz. A lo...

A current amplifier is used to realize a voltage amplifier having an improved high frequency response and slew rate capability. It is shown that the closed loop bandwidth is independent of the closed loop voltage gain. The design and application of a unity gain and a high gain current amplifier to voltage signal processing circuits are given. The results demonstrate an efficient use of the inhe...

It is practically not feasible to measure the open-loop voltage gain of the operational amplifier in the open loop configuration. It is because the open-loop voltage gain of the operational amplifier is very large. In order to avoid the saturation of the output voltage, a very small input should be given to operational amplifier which is not possible to be measured practically by a digital mult...

This paper describes a simple, inexpensive transimpedance amplifier (TIA) suitable to convert the fast current pulses delivered by photomultiplier tube of night airglow photometer into the corresponding voltage. Design criteria for the transimpedance amplifier are carefully selected to include low input bias current, offset voltage and noise. The operation of the transimpedance amplifier and th...

In this paper we present an ultra low-voltage (ULV) floating-gate (FG) transconductance amplifier The amplifier can operate at supply voltages below 1V in a standard digital double poly CMOS process . The amplifier consists of a sinh shaped output current transconductance amplifier and a tanh shaped transconductance amplifier.

A low-noise CMOS amplifier operating at a low supply voltage is developed using the two noise reduction techniques of autozeroing and chopper stabilization. The proposed amplifier utilizes a feedback with virtual grounded input-switches and a multiple-output switched opamp. The low-noise amplifier fabricated in a 0.18-μm CMOS technology achieved 50-nV/ √ Hz input noise at 1-MHz chopping and 0.5...