Browsing by Author "Tsai, Jui-Hsiang"

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A Power-efficient Bidirectional Potentiostat-based Readout IC for Wide-range Electrochemical Sensing
(2018-01-01)
Tsai, Jui-Hsiang
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Chen, Yi-Chia
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Liao, Yu-Te
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電機工程學系
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Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
This paper presents a low-power electrochemical sensor readout IC with a bi-directional potentiostat for accommodating a large dynamic sensing current range. The proposed chopper stabilization potentiostat, suppressing low-frequency noise at the front end and providing stable positive and negative potentials between the working and reference electrodes for bi-directional current sensing through a switched push-pull readout stage. The digital implementation of an oscillator-based current to frequency converter and frequency counter transforms the sensing current directly into digital codes. The design is realized in a 0.18 mu m CMOS process and occupies an area of 1.3mm(2), including all passive components and pads. The proposed readout IC achieves a 0.9pA minimum detectable current in a current range of +/- 18 mu A, an R-2 linearity of 0.999, and a dynamic detectable current range of 152dB. The static power consumption of the proposed readout IC is 2.9 mu W from a 1.5V supply.
A Power-efficient, Bi-directional Readout Interface Circuit for Cyclic-voltammetry Electrochemical Sensors
(2019-01-01)
Chen, Yi-Chia
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Lu, Shao-Yung
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Tsai, Jui-Hsiang
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Liao, Yu-Te
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電機工程學系
This paper presents an electrochemical sensing front-end circuit with a cyclic voltammetry potentiostat. To accommodate a large and bidirectional current sensing range for the current-mirror based potentiostat, a constant offset current is added. With the technique of chopper-stabilization, the flicker noise of the readout circuit is successfully reduced. A charge-based oscillator is also proposed in this paper to convert the current into a frequency for further data readout. The proposed readout IC was fabricated in a 0.18 mu m, 1.2V CMOS process and the current range is -2 mu A similar to 12.2 mu A, the R-2 linearity of 0.992, with a minimum detectable current of 3.1nA. The dynamic current range is 73.2dB whereas the chip consumes 40.5 mu W at a maximum sensing current of 12.2 mu A.
A Wirelessly Powered CMOS Electrochemical Sensing Interface With Power-Aware RF-DC Power Management
(2018-09-01)
Tsai, Jui-Hsiang
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Kuo, Chen-Yi
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Lin, Shu-Hsuan
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Lin, Fu-To
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Liao, Yu-Te
A wirelessly powered electrochemical sensing chip with high-efficiency adaptive power management for a wide RF-powering range and a low-noise chopper-stabilization potentiostat for high-resolution electrochemical current detection is presented. The chip is fabricated using a 0.18-mu m CMOS process. A novel, power-aware, multiple-path, RF-energy harvesting front end extends the high-efficiency (> 20%) RF-powering range to 8.5 dB. In the sensor-readout interface, a chopper-stabilization potentiostat with an oscillator-based current readout achieves a 3.3-pA current resolution in the current range of 800nA and an R-2 linearity of 0.9987 while consuming only 4.4 mu W. The power efficiency of the electrochemical readout interface is 0.18, and the dynamic detection range is 107 dB.