A review of MEMS capacitive microphones

SA Zawawi, AA Hamzah, BY Majlis, F Mohd-Yasin - Micromachines, 2020 - mdpi.com
This review collates around 100 papers that developed micro-electro-mechanical system
(MEMS) capacitive microphones. As far as we know, this is the first comprehensive archive …

A 1.2-V 8.3-nJ CMOS humidity sensor for RFID applications

Z Tan, R Daamen, A Humbert… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a fully integrated CMOS humidity sensor for a smart RFID sensor
platform. The sensing element is a CMOS-compatible capacitive humidity sensor, which …

Power-efficiency evolution of capacitive sensor interfaces

Z Tan, H Jiang, H Zhang, X Tang, H **n… - IEEE Sensors …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent years have witnessed an improvement in the energy efficiency of capacitive sensor
interfaces by more than three orders of magnitude. This article reviews the architectural and …

An energy-efficient 15-bit capacitive-sensor interface based on period modulation

Z Tan, SH Shalmany, GCM Meijer… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents an energy-efficient capacitive-sensor interface with a period-modulated
output signal. This interface converts the sensor capacitance to a time interval, which can be …

A 15-bit 140-W Scalable-Bandwidth Inverter-Based Modulator for a MEMS Microphone With Digital Output

T Christen - IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A discrete-time audio ΔΣ modulator for a MEMS microphone with digital output is presented
that features a scalable signal bandwidth to also support ultrasonic frequencies for proximity …

A dual-slope capacitance-to-digital converter integrated in an implantable pressure-sensing system

S Oh, Y Lee, J Wang, Z Foo, Y Kim… - IEEE Journal of solid …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A dual-slope capacitance-to-digital converter for pressure-sensing is presented and
demonstrated in a complete microsystem. The design uses base capacitance subtraction …

A capacitance-to-digital converter for displacement sensing with 17b resolution and 20μs conversion time

S **a, K Makinwa, S Nihtianov - 2012 IEEE International Solid …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In precision mechatronic systems, such as wafer steppers, the position of critical mechanical
components must be dynamically stabilized with sub-nanometer precision. This can be …

An intelligent digital microfluidic processor for biomedical detection

KYT Lai, YT Yang, CY Lee - Journal of Signal Processing Systems, 2015 - Springer
An intelligent digital microfluidic processor for biomedical detection is presented. This
potential architecture solves lots of traditional development bottlenecks to implement the …

An Energy-Efficient Hybrid SAR-VCO Capacitance-to-Digital Converter in 40-nm CMOS

A Sanyal, N Sun - IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a highly digital, 0-1 MASH capacitance-to-digital converter (CDC). The
CDC works by sampling a reference voltage on the sensing capacitor and then quantizing …

The evolution of integrated interfaces for MEMS microphones

P Malcovati, A Baschirotto - Micromachines, 2018 - mdpi.com
Over the last decade, MEMS microphones have become the leading solution for
implementing the audio module in most portable devices. One of the main drivers for the …