Smart Sensor Systems (ePub)

With contributions from an internationally-renowned group of
experts, this book uses a multidisciplinary approach to review
recent developments in the field of smart sensor systems, covering
important system and design aspects. It examines topics over
the whole range of sensor technology from the theory and
constraints of basic elements, physics and electronics, up to the
level of application-orientated issues.

Developed as a complementary volume to 'Smart Sensor
Systems' (Wiley 2008), which introduces the basics of smart
sensor systems, this volume focuses on emerging sensing
technologies and applications, including:

* State-of-the-art techniques for designing smart sensors and
smart sensor systems, including measurement techniques at system
level, such as dynamic error correction, calibration,
self-calibration and trimming.

* Circuit design for sensor systems, such as the design of
precision instrumentation amplifiers.

* Impedance sensors, and the associated measurement techniques
and electronics, that measure electrical characteristics to derive
physical and biomedical parameters, such as blood viscosity or
growth of micro-organisms.

* Complete sensor systems-on-a-chip, such as CMOS optical imagers
and microarrays for DNA detection, and the associated circuit and
micro-fabrication techniques.

* Vibratory gyroscopes and the associated electronics, employing
mechanical and electrical signal amplification to enable low-power
angular-rate sensing.

* Implantable smart sensors for neural interfacing in bio-medical
applications.

* Smart combinations of energy harvesters and energy-storage
devices for autonomous wireless sensors.

Smart Sensor Systems: Emerging Technologies and Applications
will greatly benefit final-year undergraduate and postgraduate
students in the areas of electrical, mechanical and chemical
engineering, and physics. Professional engineers and researchers in
the microelectronics industry, including microsystem developers,
will also find this a thorough and useful volume.