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A large capacitive load amplifier with enhanced active-feedback frequency compensation is proposed in this paper. The enhancement is achieved through using a wide-bandwidth scalar circuit to increase the transconductance of the output stage so that the overall bandwidth of the amplifier can be extended considerably. Implemented in a standard CMOS 130-nm technology, with a supply of 0.7 V and consuming 27 μA of current, the amplifier drives a load capacitor of 15 nF. No on-chip resistor is needed; only a 0.91-pF compensation capacitor is used to maintain stability. The achieved gain-bandwidth product and phase margin are 1.28 MHz and 66.9°, respectively. Moreover, the slew rate is 0.263 V/μs. The active chip area is 0.0056 mm2. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]