論文

査読有り
2016年2月

Compensation Technique for Current-to-Voltage Converters for LSI Patch Clamp System Using High Resistive Feedback

IEICE TRANSACTIONS ON FUNDAMENTALS OF ELECTRONICS COMMUNICATIONS AND COMPUTER SCIENCES
  • Hiroki Yotsuda
  • ,
  • Retdian Nicodimus
  • ,
  • Masahiro Kubo
  • ,
  • Taro Kosaka
  • ,
  • Nobuhiko Nakano

E99A
2
開始ページ
531
終了ページ
539
記述言語
英語
掲載種別
研究論文(学術雑誌)
DOI
10.1587/transfun.E99.A.531
出版者・発行元
IEICE-INST ELECTRONICS INFORMATION COMMUNICATIONS ENG

Patch clamp measurement technique is one of the most important techniques in the field of electrophysiology. The elucidation of the channels, nerve cells, and brain activities as well as contribution of the treatment of neurological disorders is expected from the measurement of ion current. A current-to-voltage converter, which is the front end circuit of the patch clamp measurement system is fabricated using 0.18 mu m CMOS technology. The current-to-voltage converter requires a resistance as high as 50 M Omega as a feedback resistor in order to ensure a high signal-to-noise ratio for very small signals. However, the circuit becomes unstable due to the large parasitic capacitance between the poly layer and the substrate of the on-chip feedback resistor and the instability causes the peaking at lower frequency. The instability of a current-to-voltage converter with a high-resistance as a feedback resistor is analyzed theoretically. A compensation circuit to stabilize the amplifier by driving the N-well under poly resistor to suppress the effect of parasitic capacitance using buffer circuits is proposed. The performance of the proposed circuit is confirmed by both simulation and measurement of fabricated chip. The peaking in frequency characteristic is suppressed properly by the proposed method. Furthermore, the bandwidth of the amplifier is expanded up to 11.3 kHz, which is desirable for a patch clamp measurement. In addition, the input referred rms noise with the range of 10 Hz similar to 10 kHz is 2.09 pA(rms) and is sufficiently reach the requirement for measure of both whole-cell and a part of single-channel recordings.

リンク情報
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1587/transfun.E99.A.531
Web of Science
https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000376162600014&DestApp=WOS_CPL
ID情報
  • DOI : 10.1587/transfun.E99.A.531
  • ISSN : 1745-1337
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000376162600014

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