Everything about Transconductance

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: TransconductanceA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: High-Transconductance, Highly Elastic, Durable and Recyclable All-Polymer Electrochemical Transistors with 3D Micro-Engineered InterfacesInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: CMOS analog design using all-region MOSFET modelingThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: High transconductance organic electrochemical transistorsCited 865 times
5. Go sideways: Operational transconductance amplifierA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: CascodeA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• High transconductance organic electrochemical transistors

  Dion Khodagholy, Jonathan Rivnay, Michele Sessolo · 2013 · Nature Communications · 865 citations

• A CMOS transconductance-C filter technique for very high frequencies

  B. Nauta · 1992 · IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits · 543 citations

• Active filter design using operational transconductance amplifiers: A tutorial

  Randall L. Geiger, Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio · 1985 · IEEE Circuits and Devices Magazine · 484 citations

• Very high breakdown voltage and large transconductance realized on GaN heterojunction field effect transistors

  Y.-F. Wu, B. P. Keller, S. Keller · 1996 · Applied Physics Letters · 327 citations

• Organic Electrochemical Transistors with Maximum Transconductance at Zero Gate Bias

  Jonathan Rivnay, Pierre Leleux, Michele Sessolo · 2013 · Advanced Materials · 302 citations

• Modeling of transconductance degradation and extraction of threshold voltage in thin oxide MOSFET's

  Hon-Sum Wong, Marvin H. White, Thomas J. Krutsick · 1987 · Solid-State Electronics · 291 citations

• Design of linear CMOS transconductance elements

  A. Nedungadi, T. Viswanathan · 1984 · IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems · 279 citations

• CMOS transconductance amplifiers, architectures and active filters: a tutorial

  E. Sánchez-Sinencio, J. Silva-Martínez · 2000 · IEE Proceedings - Circuits, Devices and Systems · 267 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• High-Transconductance, Highly Elastic, Durable and Recyclable All-Polymer Electrochemical Transistors with 3D Micro-Engineered Interfaces

  Wenjin Wang, Zhaoxian Li, Mancheng Li · 2022 · Nano-Micro Letters · 103 citations

• 2D metal-organic frameworks for ultraflexible electrochemical transistors with high transconductance and fast response speeds

  Jiajun Song, Hong Liu, Zeyu Zhao · 2023 · Science Advances · 91 citations

• Functional Metal–Organic Frameworks for Maximizing Transconductance of Organic Photoelectrochemical Transistor at Zero Gate Bias and Biological Interfacing Application

  Ge Gao, Jia‐Hao Chen, Ming‐Jian Jing · 2023 · Advanced Functional Materials · 78 citations

• Solution processed low power organic field-effect transistor bio-chemical sensor of high transconductance efficiency

  Wei Tang, Ying Fu, Yukun Huang · 2022 · npj Flexible Electronics · 52 citations

• Face‐on Orientation Matches Vertical Organic Electrochemical Transistors for High Transconductance and Superior Non‐Volatility

  Bingjun Wang, Yuxin Kong, Sen Zhang · 2023 · Advanced Functional Materials · 45 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• CMOS analog design using all-region MOSFET modelingMárcio Cherem Schneider · 2010
• 49 easy electronic projects for transconductance & Norton op ampsDelton T. Horn · 1990
• 📕On transconductance-C filtersJeffrey J.* Culbert · 1988
• 📕Textbook of Operational Transconductance Amplifier and Analog Integrated CircuitsTahira Parveen · 2013
• 📕Transconductance Thermal Noise Model for MosfetsMike Peralta · 2012
• 📕Application of transconductance-C technology in ultrasound imaging systemsIsmail Mahmoud.* Osman · 1989
• 📕A programmable BiCMOS transconductance-capacitor filter for high frequenciesJeffery S. Beck · 1993
• A Design Strategy for Low-Power Low-Voltage Integrated Transconductance AmplifiersJeroen Kuenen · 1997

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