Sensors and Signal Conditioning, 2nd Edition

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"A unique piece of work, a book for electronics engineering, in general, but well suited and excellently applicable also to biomedical engineering . . . I recommend it with no reservation, congratulating the authors for the job performed." -IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology

"Describes a broad range of sensors in practical use and some circuit designs; copious information about electronic components is supplied, a matter of great value to electronic engineers. A large number of applications are supplied for each type of sensor described . . . This volume is of considerable importance."-Robotica

In this new edition of their successful book, renowned authorities Ramon Pallàs-Areny and John Webster bring you up to speed on the latest advances in sensor technology, addressing both the explosive growth in the use of microsensors and improvements made in classical macrosensors. They continue to offer the only combined treatment for both sensors and the signal-conditioning circuits associated with them, following the discussion of a given sensor and its applications with signal-conditioning methods for this type of sensor. New and expanded coverage includes:
* New sections on sensor materials and microsensor technology
* Basic measurement methods and primary sensors for common physical quantities
* A wide range of new sensors, from magnetoresistive sensors and SQUIDs to biosensors
* The widely used velocity sensors, fiber-optic sensors, and chemical sensors
* Variable CMOS oscillators and other digital and intelligent sensors
* 68 worked-out examples and 103 end-of-chapter problems with annotated solutions

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Not Good.......2006-03-15

I usually do not take time to write a review. However, if you are considering using this book to teach a sensors course, do not! THere are multiple mistakes within the text, including grammatical errors and incorrect equations. The questions at the end of the chapter are good, however the answers in the back of the book are incorrect at least 25% of the time. The organiztion of the book is good for me, but until the errors are corrected, do not use this edition.

Piezoelectric Transducers and Applications

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Piezoelectric Transducers and Applications
Antonio Arnau Vives
Manufacturer: Springer
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ASIN: 3540209980
Release Date: 2007-05-25

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Piezoelectric Transducers and Applications provides a guide for graduate students and researchers to the current state of the art of this complex and multidisciplinary area. The book fills an urgent need for a unified source of information on piezoelectric devices and their astounding variety of existing and emerging applications. Some of the chapters focus more on the basic concepts of the different disciplines involved and are presented in a didactic manner. Others go deeper into the complex aspects of specific fields of research, thus reaching the technical level of a scientific paper. Among other topics resonant sensors, especially bulk acoustic wave thickness shear mode resonators, chemical and bio-sensors, as well as broadband ultrasonic systems are treated in-depth.

Micro Mechanical Transducers (Handbook of Sensors and Actuators)

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Micro Mechanical Transducers (Handbook of Sensors and Actuators)
Min-hang Bao
Manufacturer: Elsevier Science
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Some years ago, silicon-based mechanical sensors, like pressure sensors, accelerometers and gyroscopes, started their successful advance. Every year, hundreds of millions of these devices are sold, mainly for medical and automotive applications. The airbag sensor on which research already started several decades ago at Stanford University can be found in every new car and has saved already numerous lives. Pressure sensors are also used in modern electronic blood pressure equipment. Many other mechanical sensors, mostly invisible to the public, perform useful functions in countless industrial and consumer products.

The underlying physics and technology of silicon-based mechanical sensors is rather complex and is treated in numerous publications scattered throughout the literature. Therefore, a clear need existed for a handbook that thoroughly and systematically reviews the present basic knowledge on these devices.

After a short introduction, Professor Bao discusses the main issues relevant to silicon-based mechanical sensors. First a thorough treatment of stress and strain in diaphragms and beams is presented. Next, vibration of mechanical structures is illuminated, followed by a chapter on air damping. These basic chapters are then succeeded by chapters in which capacitive and piezoresistive sensing techniques are amply discussed. The book concludes with chapters on commercially available pressure sensors, accelerometers and resonant sensors in which the above principles are applied.

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This practical handbook provides the knowledge needed to specify and apply the best piezoresistive pressure sensors to interface with microprocessors and computers. Eliminating the details of semiconductor physics, it clarifies the three kinds of pressure measurement, explains silicon sensor design

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Sensors and Transducers, Third Edition
Ian Sinclair
Manufacturer: Newnes
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ASIN: 0750649321

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In this book Ian Sinclair provides the practical knowhow required by technician engineers, systems designers and students. The focus is firmly on understanding the technologies and their different applications, not a mathematical approach. The result is a highly readable text which provides a unique introduction to the selection and application of sensors, transducers and switches, and a grounding in the practicalities of designing with these devices.

The devices covered encompass heat, light and motion, environmental sensing, sensing in industrial control, and signal-carrying and non-signal switches.

Get up to speed in this key topic through this leading practical guide
Understand the range of technologies and applications before specifying
Gain a working knowledge with a minimum of maths

Linear Position Sensors: Theory and Application

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This book rocks!
Great book for sensor engineers

Linear Position Sensors: Theory and Application
David S. Nyce
Manufacturer: Wiley-Interscience
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Capacitive Sensors: Design and Applications (IEEE Press Series on Electronics Technology)

ASIN: 0471233269

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Sensor technology is an increasingly important area of research
This will be the only book entirely devoted to the topic

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* Sensor technology is an increasingly important area of research
* This will be the only book entirely devoted to the topic

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This book rocks!.......2004-07-15

Great technical book packed only with useful information. Great section on understanding basic electrical parameters. I needed a position sensor and this book taught me what to look for, and how to understand it.

Great book for sensor engineers.......2004-01-08

The chapters about sensors and specs in general are great for new engineers to understand what's important in designing sensors. The rest of the chapters give an understanding of many types of sensors. The author's style is to be short and to the point, just what I like. The book is fairly short, and I hope future editions may expand more on some of the deatails.

Beyond Your Senses: The New World of Sensors

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Beyond Your Senses: The New World of Sensors
Hal Hellman
Manufacturer: Dutton Juvenile
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Sensors & Circuits: Sensors, Transducers, & Supporting Circuits For Electronic Instrumentation Measurement and Control

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Sensors & Circuits: Sensors, Transducers, & Supporting Circuits For Electronic Instrumentation Measurement and Control
Joseph J. Carr
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ASIN: 0138056315

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Comprehensive reference providing detailed treatment of sensors ranging from simple thermistors to strain gauges, electro-optics, and medical laboratory sensors. Practical application and interfacing to both analog and digital circuits are included. Covers the latest analog-to-digital converters for sensor interfacing to computers and interfacing sensors to the IBM-PC series computers. Also delivers a wealth of vital application examples. Intended for practical design of instrumentation devices. KEY FEATURES: • provides grounding, shielding, and interference reduction strategies. • includes in-depth coverage of noise and its effects on sensor signal processing. • covers DC power supply and excitation sources for sensors.

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Transducers, sensors & detectors
Robert G Seippel
Manufacturer: Reston Pub. Co
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1997 9th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors and Actuators, Transducers

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1997 9th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors and Actuators, Transducers
Ill.) International Conference on Solid-State Sensors and Actuators (9th : 1997 : Chicago
Manufacturer: IEEE Standards Office
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ASIN: 0780338294

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Business Strategy is becoming increasingly 'pluralist', drawing on the insights of different disciplines, and business practice in different parts of the world. This book brings together the work and ideas of leading international scholars working in the field under three main headings Technology, Strategy and Organization, and Regions. The purpose of the book is to explore from different perspectives the dynamic interplay between the technology of a firm; its strategies; organizational choices; and issues of place, region, and location. The contributors are Peter Hagstrom, Alfred Chandler, Takahiro Fujimoto, Richard Nelson, Nathan Rosenberg, Erik von Hippel, Cristiano Antonelli, Giovanni Dosi, Benjamin Coriat, David Teece, Gunnar Hedlund, Pari Patel, Keith Pavitt, Ikujiro Nonaka, Hirotaka Takeuchi, Lars-Gunnar Mattsson, John Cantwell, John Dunning, Michael Enright, Masahisa Fujita, Ryoichi Ishii, Allen Scott, Orjan Solvell, Ivo Zander, J-C Spender, and Michael Porter. Together they address the challenge of explaining the long-run competitiveness of firms in an ever more global world. This book will be a benchmark for anybody wanting to keep abreast of leading edge strategic thinking.

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Good for textbook.......2001-07-21

First of all, this edited book is designed to bring together multi-displinary academic areas, not least business studies, economics and economic geography, which are interested in the dynamics of the firm. It is nice and well structured in terms of economics of the firm. However, from a viewpoint of an economic geographer, some of papers which talk about economic geography of the corporate organisation are too plain, old fashioned. Nevertheless, it is recommended that this book illustrates excellent combination of attempts to understand the firm as a container, seeker and creater of competence itself.

above average book.......2000-07-26

Sound and understandable book, but not excellent at all

The Dynamic Firm : The Role of Technology, Strategy, Organization, and Regions

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The Dynamic Firm : The Role of Technology, Strategy, Organization, and Regions
Alfred D. Chandler
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press(UK)
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