Transimpedance Amplifier for Integrated 3D Ultrasound Biomicroscope Applications

This paper presents the design and implementation of a fully integrated transimpedance amplifier (TIA) as the analog frontend receiver for Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasound Transducers (CMUTs) for ultrasound biomicroscope imaging application. The amplifier is designed to amplify the received signals from 17.5MHz to 52.5MHz with a center frequency of 35MHz. The TIA was fabricated in GF 0.18μm 1P6M 30V high voltage process. The measurement results show that the designed amplifier can reach a transimpedance gain of 61.08dBΩ and operating frequency from 17.5MHz to 100MHz with 1VP-P output voltage under 6V power supply.

• Xiwei Huang
• Hyouk-Kyu Cha
• Dongning Zhao
• Bin Guo
• Minkyu Je
• Hao Yu

• 3D ultrasound biomicroscope
• analog front-end
• transimpedance amplifier
• CMUT

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