Abstract
This paper presents a direct conversion transceiver intended for use in a microfluidic NMR flowmeter. It consists of an H-bridge power amplifier, which drives a hand-wound milimeter-sized coil with RF signals, and a direct conversion receiver, which amplifies the NMR signals picked up by the coil, and then digitizes them with an asynchronous 8 bit SAR ADC sampling at 70 MHz. Fabricated in a 65 nm CMOS technology, the receiver achieves a noise spectral density of 1 nV/sqrt(Hz) at 21 MHz, while dissipating only 36 mW. A microfluidic flowmeter based on the transceiver and a handheld 0.5 T permanent magnet can measure flow rates up to 96 ml/h in a 0.8 mm inner-diameter channel with pm 1.3 % full-scale error. To the authors' best knowledge, this is the first reported portable NMR flowmeter.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | ESSERC 2024 - Proceedings |
| Subtitle of host publication | 50th IEEE European Solid-State Electronics Research Conference |
| Publisher | IEEE |
| Pages | 536-539 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9798350388138 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2024 |
| Event | 50th IEEE European Solid-State Electronics Research Conference, ESSERC 2024 - Bruges, Belgium Duration: 9 Sept 2024 → 12 Sept 2024 |
Publication series
| Name | European Solid-State Circuits Conference |
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| ISSN (Print) | 1930-8833 |
Conference
| Conference | 50th IEEE European Solid-State Electronics Research Conference, ESSERC 2024 |
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| Country/Territory | Belgium |
| City | Bruges |
| Period | 9/09/24 → 12/09/24 |
Bibliographical note
Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-careOtherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.
Keywords
- ADC
- ASIC
- CMOS
- direct-conversion
- flowmeter
- NMR
- transceiver
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