Abstract This paper introduces a new parasitic-insensitive charge transfer circuit using active output voltage feedback. The proposed parasitic-insensitive charge transfer circuit uses a passive charge transfer circuit for maximum output voltage dynamic range. A feedback loop between the transfer and output nodes is formed using a unity-gain opamp to make the two nodes’ potentials same, which p...

Piezoelectric tube scanners with quartered external electrodes are the most widely used nanopositioning technology in modern scanning probe microscopes. There has been increasing interest in utilizing feedback control techniques to improve bandwidth and accuracy of these nanopositioners. The use of feedback requires a sensor to be incorporated into the nanopositioning device. Noncontact displac...

Transimpedance amplifiers using voltage feedback operational amplifiers are widely used for current to voltage conversion in applications when a moderatehigh bandwidth and a high sensitivity are required, such as photodiodes, photomultipliers, electron multipliers and capacitive sensors. The conventional circuit presents a virtual earth to the input and at low frequencies, the input capacitance...

This paper presents two novel active-feedback single Miller capacitor frequency compensation techniques for low-power three-stage ampli ̄ers. These techniques include the active-feedback single Miller capacitor frequency compensation (AFSMC) and the dual active-feedback single Miller capacitor frequency compensation (DAFSMC). In the proposed techniques, only one Miller capacitor in series with a...

there are fewer problems encountered with optical voltage transducers in comparison with their inductive and capacitive counterparts. although capacitive and inductive transformers are used vastly for the purpose of measurement and protection in the networks, they cause problems such as core saturation and improper transient responses which decrease the accuracy of measurement and eficiency of ...

We describe an offset-canceling low-noise lock-in architecture for capacitive sensing. We take advantage of the properties of modulation and demodulation to separate the signal from the dc offset and use nonlinear multiplicative feedback to cancel the offset. The feedback also attenuates out-of-band noise and further enhances the power of a lock-in technique. Experimentally, in a 1.5m BiCMOS ch...