Ultra-energy-efficient analog-to-digital converters based on single-electron transistor/CMOS hybrid technology for biomedical applications

Ultra-energy-efficient analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) based on single-electron transistor (SET)/complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) hybrid technology are proposed as a solution to sense and process biomedical signals. Our results show the energy efficiency of 0.82 pJ/state, which is lower than that in previously reported energy-efficient ADCs. The performance and dissipated power of proposed ADCs are estimated and compared with those of CMOS ADCs by using Lee's SPICE model including non-ideal effects of the experimental data. While the proposed ADC shows an operating power lower by two orders of magnitude than that of the CMOS flash-type ADC, the number of required transistors is about 10% of that in the CMOS flash-type ADC. The peak-to-valley current ratio in Coulomb oscillation of SETs used in the circuit implementation has the range of 1.15–1.5, which is consistent with the experimental result of top-down approached Si-based SETs at T = 77–100 K. From the perspective of the immunity to the gate capacitance Ccg mismatch and the background charge Q0 noise, it is shown that the criteria of SET/CMOS hybrid ADCs are ΔCcg ≤ 0.02 × Ccg (with Ccg = 0.24 aF) and ΔQ0 ≤ 0.23q, respectively.

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