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Potentiostat is a circuit arrangement that maintains the electrochemical stability and also buffers the output signal. It senses the signal applied to it and thus generates the output proportional to the electrochemical current. This paper proposes an efficient design of a low-amplitude signal sensor with very low power consumption. The proposed design proves its significance as a low-amplitude signal sensor, which finds its applications in the field of biomedical. Different types of low-amplitude signals are processed through the proposed potentiostat design to analyze the sensed output levels. Further, this paper also makes the variability analysis of proposed design to demonstrate its immunity against the process parameter variation. The modeling of proposed potentiostat is done in SPICE, and the simulation results have been extensively verified using the same.
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Dwivedi, A.K., Sinha, A., Islam, A. (2015). Design of a Signal Sensor for Analyzing Biological Activities at Cellular Level. In: Mandal, D., Kar, R., Das, S., Panigrahi, B. (eds) Intelligent Computing and Applications. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 343. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2268-2_42
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