Resistor-Based Temperature Sensors: Technical Review

Yong Tae Lee; Woo Jun Choi; Young Cheol Chae

doi:10.23075/jicas.2021.7.1.005

Yong Tae Lee Yonsei University
Woo Jun Choi Yonsei University
Young Cheol Chae Yonsei University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.23075/jicas.2021.7.1.005

Keywords: CMOS temperature sesor, Energy-efficiency, High resolution, Resistor-based temperature sensor, Silicided polysilicon resistors

Abstract

This paper presents a technical overview of recently developed resistor-based temperature sensors, which achieve high energy-efficiency and high resolution, simultaneously. Such sensors consist of silicided polysilicon resistors that have relatively high temperature coefficients (TCs), low 1/f noise, low supply dependency, and low stress sensitivity. Various design techniques of resistor-based sensors are compared and their performances are summarized.

Author Biographies

Yong Tae Lee, Yonsei University

Yong Tae Lee received the B.S. degree in electrical and electronic engineering from Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea, in 2016, where he is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in electrical and electronic engineering. His current research interests include low-power, highaccuracy temperature sensors.

Woo Jun Choi, Yonsei University

Woo Jun Choi received the B.S. degree in electrical and electronic engineering from Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea, in 2015, where he is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in electrical and electronic engineering. He is being supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) Grant funded by the Korean Government
(NRF-2016-Global Ph.D. Fellowship Program). His current research interests include high-speed interface circuits,
precision analog circuits, and CMOS temperature sensors.

Young Cheol Chae, Yonsei University

Young Cheol Chae received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Electronic Eng. from Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, in 2003, 05, and 09, respectively. From 2009 to 2011, he was a Post-Doctoral Researcher in Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands. Since 2012, he has been a faculty with Yonsei University and is currently an Associate Professor. He focused on low-power data converters and high-performance sensor interfaces. This results in more than 90 technical papers and 30 patents. Dr. Chae is an active member of the Technical Program Committees of the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) and the Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC). He is a Distinguished Lecturer (DL) of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) in 2018-2019. He received the Best Young Professor Award in engineering from Yonsei University in 2018, the Haedong Young Engineer Award from IEE Korea in 2017, the Outstanding Research Award of Yonsei University in 2017/18/19, the Outstanding Teaching Award of Yonsei University in 2013/14, a Research Grant from the Samsung Research Funding Center in 2017, and the VENI Grant from the Dutch Technology Foundation STW in 2011.

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