Comprehensive Noise Modeling of Piezoelectric Charge Accelerometer with Signal Conditioning Circuit

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Ali, Ghulam
Mohd-Yasin, Faisal
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2024
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This paper reports on noise modeling of a piezoelectric charge accelerometer with a signal conditioning circuit. The charge output is converted into voltage and amplified using a JFET operational amplifier that has high input resistance and low noise. The noise sources in the whole system include electrical and mechanical thermal noises of the accelerometer, thermal noises of resistors, and voltage and current noises of the operational amplifier. Noise gain of each source is derived from small signal circuit analysis. It is found that the feedback resistor of the operational amplifier is a major source of noise in low frequencies, whereas electrical thermal noise of the accelerometer dominates the rest of spectrum. This method can be used to pair a highly sensitive sensor with a single JFET operational amplifier instead of a multi-stage signal conditioning circuit.

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Micromachines

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15

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2

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© 2024 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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Nanotechnology

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Ali, G; Mohd-Yasin, F, Comprehensive Noise Modeling of Piezoelectric Charge Accelerometer with Signal Conditioning Circuit, Micromachines, 2024, 15 (2), pp. 283

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