Integrated Differential Three-Level High-Voltage Pulser Output Stage for CMUTs

Pere Llimos Muntal; Dennis Øland Larsen; Ivan Harald Holger Jørgensen; Erik Bruun

doi:10.1109/PRIME.2015.7251082

Integrated Differential Three-Level High-Voltage Pulser Output Stage for CMUTs

Pere Llimos Muntal, Dennis Øland Larsen, Ivan Harald Holger Jørgensen, Erik Bruun

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Abstract

A new integrated differential three-level highvoltage pulser output stage to drive capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers (CMUTs) is proposed in this paper. A topology comparison between the new differential output stage and the most commonly used single-ended topology is performed in order to assess the performance of the new output stage. The new topology achieves a 10.9% lower power consumption and an area reduction of 23.5% for the same specifications. The differential output stage proposed is able to generate pulses with a slew rate of 2 V/ns, a frequency of 5MHz and voltage levels of 60, 80, 100V using 0.039mm² of chip area. The power consumption is 0.951mW for a 30 pF CMUT load. The design presented is implemented in a 0.35 μm high-voltage process.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 11th Conference on PhD Research in Microelectronics and Electronics (IEEE PRIME 2015)
Publisher	IEEE
Publication date	2015
Pages	13-16
ISBN (Print)	9781479982295
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/PRIME.2015.7251082
Publication status	Published - 2015
Event	The 11th Conference on PhD Research in Microelectronics and Electronics - Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom Duration: 29 Jun 2015 → 2 Jul 2015 Conference number: 11 http://web.eng.gla.ac.uk/prime2015/

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Conference	The 11th Conference on PhD Research in Microelectronics and Electronics
Number	11
Country	United Kingdom
City	Glasgow, Scotland
Period	29/06/2015 → 02/07/2015
Internet address	http://web.eng.gla.ac.uk/prime2015/

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Llimos Muntal, P, Larsen, DØ, Jørgensen, IHH & Bruun, E 2015, Integrated Differential Three-Level High-Voltage Pulser Output Stage for CMUTs. in Proceedings of the 11th Conference on PhD Research in Microelectronics and Electronics (IEEE PRIME 2015). IEEE, pp. 13-16, The 11th Conference on PhD Research in Microelectronics and Electronics, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom, 29/06/2015. https://doi.org/10.1109/PRIME.2015.7251082

Integrated Differential Three-Level High-Voltage Pulser Output Stage for CMUTs. / Llimos Muntal, Pere; Larsen, Dennis Øland; Jørgensen, Ivan Harald Holger ; Bruun, Erik.

Proceedings of the 11th Conference on PhD Research in Microelectronics and Electronics (IEEE PRIME 2015). IEEE, 2015. p. 13-16.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review

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