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A 99.95% Current Efficient Temperature Invariant All-in-One Reference Circuit on Flexible Substrate

  • Zhenhan Wang*
  • , Dipesh C. Monga
  • , Kari Halonen
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Aalto University

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Abstract

This work presents a sub-100 nW all-in-one voltage and current reference circuit implemented using 600 nm indium gallium zinc oxide (IGZO) thin-film transistor (TFT) on a flexible substrate. The proposed design integrates both voltage and current references into a single, simple, and compact architecture. By employing NMOS-only devices with negative feedback, the circuit achieves temperature compensation over a temperature range from 10 °C to 100 °C through a stabilized zero temperature coefficient (ZTC) bias point, enhancing the temperature coefficients (TCs). Simulation results demonstrate that the circuit provides a stable reference current of 78.14 nA and a reference voltage of 1.153 V at room temperature (27 °C), with TCs of 99.6 ppm/°C and 263.6 ppm/°C, respectively. The line sensitivities (LS) are 1.276%/V for the current reference and 0.319%/V for the voltage reference over a supply voltage range from 1.5 V to 5 V making it suitable for integration into both flexible electronics and even conventional Si-based CMOS circuits. The circuit achieves a current efficiency of 99.95% and occupies an area of 0.0183

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationISCAS 2025 - IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems
PublisherIEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)979-8-3503-5683-0
ISBN (Print)979-8-3503-5684-7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2025
MoE publication typeA4 Article in a conference publication
Event2025 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS 2025 - London, United Kingdom
Duration: 25 May 202528 May 2025

Publication series

SeriesIEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
ISSN0271-4310

Conference

Conference2025 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS 2025
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityLondon
Period25/05/2528/05/25

Funding

This work is supported by Academy of Finland projects BL-SPIN (grant 13364029-1).

Keywords

  • all-in-one reference
  • current reference
  • IGZO TFT
  • NMOS-only
  • thermal compensation
  • ultra-low-power
  • voltage reference

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