Flexible fingerprint sensor driver IC and bendable evaluation

The paper presents a flexible polyimide fingerprint sensor driver IC driven by a 0.18-μm CMOS technology and studies the sensor bendable performance. The finger valley and ridge are sensitive to environment noise; therefore, we propose low-ripple cross non-overlap charge pump that performs 7.2 V pumped output voltage with Δ30 mV ripple and 98.36% pump efficiency to increase the sensing level and propose mutual V_ref SAR ADC circuit with 6.6 V input swing range, 30 MS/s, ENOB of 10 bits, SNDR 74.1 dB, and bit error with INL [0.61, −0.7] and DNL [0.9, −0.62] to enhance the resolution. Through low-ripple charge pump and mutual V_ref SAR ADC circuitry implementation, it makes the sensing of fingerprint valley and ridge capacitance signal still distinguishable when the film is bent harshly by the substrate radius 10 mm and, in the meanwhile, meet the FBI PIV biometric fingerprint image quality, which is upmost tough standard in biometric fingerprint of identification product.