ULTRA LOW-NOISE PREAMPLIFIER FOR LOW-FREQUENCY NOISE MEASUREMENTS IN ELECTRON DEVICES

被引:51
作者
NERI, B [1 ]
PELLEGRINI, B [1 ]
SALETTI, R [1 ]
机构
[1] CNR,CTR STUDIO METODI & DISPOSITIVI RADIOTRASMISS,I-56126 PISA,ITALY
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10.1109/19.69939
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
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0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
The design and realization of an ultra low-noise high-input impedance amplifier for low-frequency noise measurements in electronic devices is presented. Special care is devoted to the solution of typical problems encountered in the design of low-noise low-frequency equipment, such as power supply noise and temperature fluctuations. The preamplifier has a band width of over 7 decades with a low-frequency roll-off of 4 mHz. The noise characteristics obtained are sensibly better than those of commercial preamplifiers commonly adopted in low-frequency noise measurements. The application of this preamplifier to the realization of standard 1/f-gamma noise generators is also presented.
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