Integrated CMOS transimpedance, (TZ) amplifier circuits have been designed
and fabricated based on a home-made BSIM model. A 0.35 mum CMOS technology
was used for circuit realisation, and a capacitive-peaking design to improv
e the bandwidth of the TZ amplifier is proposed and investigated. Using thi
s approach provides an easy way to improve the performance of the TZ amplif
ier; the measured 3 dB bandwidth is enhanced from 875 MHz to 1.35 GHz. The
CMOS TZ amplifier design achieves a 2 Gbit/s data rate.