A Delay-Cell-Controlled VCO Design for Unipolar Single-Gate Enhancement-Mode TFT Technologies

oleh: Bin Li, Siwei Wei, Mingjian Zhao, Rongsheng Chen, Zhaohui Wu, Yuming Xu

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: MDPI AG 2022-12-01

Deskripsi

This work outperforms the previous literatures by proposing a delay-cell-controlled voltage control oscillator (VCO) design for common unipolar, single-gate, and enhancement-mode thin-film transistor (TFT) technologies. A design example with InZnO TFTs is simulated to verify the proposed design. The design example has a 500 μW power consumption, 0.7 mm<sup>2</sup> area, 3.8 kHz–8 kHz output frequency range, 600 Hz/V tuning sensitivity, and 4% maximum linear error. This design may have the potential to be used for flexible, low cost, and moderate speed sensor readout interfaces.