The ultimate resolution limit of the current front-end of wideband impedance detection circuits is set by the input total capacitance and input equivalent noise. We present a solution to reduce the noise of more than an order of magnitude when the capacitance cannot be further minimized. By introducing a properly-chosen inductor (and a proper and stable biasing network) it is possible to cancel the capacitive reactance at the resonance frequency (∼10 MHz) which becomes the sensing frequency, thus significantly reducing the detection noise, while preserving the accuracy of the transfer function. A detailed analysis of the scheme, and its experimental validation with different inductors are presented. In all cases an improvement larger than 10 is achieved with an input-referred current spectral density of ∼1 pA/VHz at the operating frequency of ∼20 MHz.
Resonant noise-canceling current front-end for high-resolution impedance sensing
RAGNI, ANDREA;Carminati, M.;Ferrari, G.
2018-01-01
Abstract
The ultimate resolution limit of the current front-end of wideband impedance detection circuits is set by the input total capacitance and input equivalent noise. We present a solution to reduce the noise of more than an order of magnitude when the capacitance cannot be further minimized. By introducing a properly-chosen inductor (and a proper and stable biasing network) it is possible to cancel the capacitive reactance at the resonance frequency (∼10 MHz) which becomes the sensing frequency, thus significantly reducing the detection noise, while preserving the accuracy of the transfer function. A detailed analysis of the scheme, and its experimental validation with different inductors are presented. In all cases an improvement larger than 10 is achieved with an input-referred current spectral density of ∼1 pA/VHz at the operating frequency of ∼20 MHz.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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