Leland Stanford Junior University

Joseph A Sulpizio

Arash Hazeghi

H S Philip Wong

David J K Goldhaber

The present approach is based on the use of an integrated capacitance bridge circuit to measure the capacitance of a device under test. A significant feature of this approach is that the operating point is not the null point of the bridge circuit. Instead, the operating point of the bridge circuit is tuned to be away from the null point. By moving away from the null point, the output signal from the bridge circuit is increased. Preferably, this output signal is substantially larger than the input noise floor of an amplifier connected to the bridge circuit output, while being substantially less than G&#x3bd;, where G is the gain provided by the bridge circuit transistor and &#x3bd;is the AC signal applied to the device under test. Experiments on graphene devices and on carbon nanotube FETs demonstrate about 10 aF resolution (graphene) and about 13 aF resolution (carbon nanotube FET) at room temperature.

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Humble, TX, United States of America

Joseph A Sulpizio