Understanding Sources of Electronic Noises in Circuits

1. 雜訊測量及分析實驗

2. Sources of electronic noises • The two most commonly encountered types of noise are thermal noises and shot noises. • Thermal noise arise from the random velocity fluctuation of the charge carriers (electron and/or holes) in a resistive material. • The mechanism is sometimes said to be the Brownian motion of the charge carriers due to the thermal energy of the materials.

3. The thermal noise is often referred to as Johnson noises (or Nyquist noise) in recognition of two early investigators.

4. The thermal noise is usually expressed as Sv(f) = 4kBTR (V2/Hz) where k is the Boltzmann’s constant (1.38x10-23 J/K), R is the resistance of the conductor, T is the absolute temperature, and Sv is the voltage noise power spectral density.

5. 電壓方均根的雜訊與 4kBTR 正比

6. Shot noise occurs when the current flows across a barrier. It was first discovered by Schottky. • It is often found in solid-state devices when a current passes a potential barrier such as the depletion layer in p-n junction. • The stream of charge carrier fluctuates randomly about a mean level. The fluctuations (shot noise) are due to the random, discrete nature of the tunneling process. • The shot noise has a constant spectral density of Si(f) = 2eIDC (A2/Hz) where e is the electronic charge and Idc is theaverade current.

7. In many devices, however, there is additional noise which varies with frequency as 1/f-, where  usually lies between 0.8 and 1.2. This is commonly known as 1/f noise or flicker noise or excess noise. • The fourth types of noise is sometimes found in transistor and other devices. It is called burst noise or random telegraph noise. It consists typically of random pulses of variable length and equal height. • External noisesdue to interference from electrical or magnetic disturbances are a separate topic.

8. Circuit diagram of a noise measurement system

9. 頻譜分析儀的背景雜訊

10. 頻譜分析儀的背景雜訊 (SR760)

11. OP 放大器之電路模型與雜訊分析

12. 運算放大器 的背景雜訊 4 nV

13. 雜訊電壓頻譜

14. Noises of superconducting device

18. YBa2Cu3Oy ~2, 3, 4, 5 µm ~170 nm STO Grain boundary Geometrical configuration of dc SQUID

19. Noises in superconducting devices white noise 1/f

20. Noises in superconducting devices Possible sources of low-frequency 1/f noise: • Critical current fluctuation • Resistance fluctuation, or • Motion of flux line Possible sources of white noise: Thermal noise

21. B (Tesla) -4 -4 10 10 Earth field -5 Environmental fields Biomagnetic fields 10 mT -6 10 -7 Urban noise 10 -8 10 Car @ 50 m nT Flux-gate magnetometer Lung particles -9 10 -10 Human heart 10 Fetal heart -11 10 Human eye Transistor chip @ 2 m pT -12 10 Human brain (a) SQUID -13 10 Transistor die @ 1 m Human brain (response) SQUID -14 10 -15 10 Weak Magnetic Fields

22. Without flux dam With flux dam 20 fT/Hz1/2 The noise power spectrum density of SQUIDs magnetometer with and without flux dam.

23. (c) Ib (a) (b) V Ib

24. Schematic of dc SQUID Electronics Pick-up coil IB Lock-in Detector Amplifier Integrator Input coil Vo Rf Modulation coil Oscillator

25. Thanks for your attention! Hong-Chang Yang