Research Catalog

Title

Sensors and circuits : sensors, transducers, and supporting circuits for electronic instrumentation, measurement, and control / Joseph Carr.

Author

Carr, Joseph J.

Publication

Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : PTR Prentice Hall, ©1993.

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Details

Description

xii, 324 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Transducers
• Detectors
• Biosensors
• Transducers
• Biosensing Techniques

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Transducers, Sensors, and Signal Processing -- Direct, Indirect, and Inferential Measurements -- Transduction -- Passive Versus Active Sensors -- Sources of Sensor Error -- Sensor Terminology -- Methods and Signal Processing for Improved Sensing -- 2. Electronics Circuits: Connection, Grounding and Shielding -- Sensor Output Circuit Forms -- Amplifier Input Circuits -- Matching Sensors and Amplifiers -- Practical Sensor Amplifiers -- Guard Shielding -- Grounding and Ground Loop -- 3. Resistive, Capacitive, and Inductive Sensors -- Resistance -- Strain-Gage Circuitry -- Sensor Sensitivity -- Balancing and Calibrating a Bridge Sensor -- Inductors and Inductance -- Capacitors and Capacitance -- LC Resonant Circuits -- Variable Capacitors -- Special Variable Capacitors -- 4. Temperature Sensors -- Temperature Scales -- Thermal Resistors -- Thermocouples -- Solid-State Temperature Sensors -- Commercial IC Temperature-Measurement Sensors -- Temperature Alarms -- 5. Position and Displacement Sensors -- Potentiometer Position/Displacement Sensors -- Other Position/Displacement Sensors -- 6. Force and Pressure Sensors -- Units of Force -- Sensing Force -- Pressure Sensors -- Pascal's Principle -- Basic Pressure Sensors -- Medical Pressure-Measurement Systems -- Basic Pressure Measurements -- Blood Pressure Measurement -- Fluid-Pressure Transducers -- Fluid-Measurement System Faults -- Static Pressure Head -- Pressure Measurement Circuits -- Pressure Processing -- 7. Vibration and Acceleration Sensors -- Acceleration -- Seismic Accelerometers -- 8. Electrodes for Bioelectric Sensing -- Source of Biopotentials -- Electrode Potentials -- Electrode Model Circuit -- Surface Electrodes -- Indwelling Electrodes -- Microelectrodes -- 9. Proximity and Presence Sensors -- Capacitance Proximity Sensors -- How Do Capacitive Proximity Detectors Work? -- LC Oscillator Circuits -- Electrometer Circuits -- Bridge Methods -- Single-Object Protection -- Capacitance Presence Sensor -- Inductive Proximity Sensors -- Magnetic Proximity Switches -- Light-Operated Proximity/Presence Sensors -- Microwave Proximity/Presence Sensors -- Introduction to Radar Devices -- Pulse Properties -- The Radar Range Equation -- Radar and Microwave Systems -- The Doppler Effect and Velocity Measurement -- Ultrasonic Proximity Detectors -- 10. Flow and Flow-Rate Sensors -- Laminar and Turbulent Flow -- Flow, Total Flow (Flow Volume), Flow Rate -- Flow Detectors -- Potentiometer Systems -- Other Mechanical Sensor Systems -- Pressure-Drop Systems -- Thermal Systems -- Ultrasonic Flow Measurement Systems -- Types of Ultrasonic Flowmeters -- Electromagnetic Flowmeters -- 11. Liquid-Level Sensors -- Discrete-Level Sensors -- Continuous Level Sensors -- 12. Electro-Optical Sensors -- Light -- Light Sensors -- Photoemissive Sensors -- Photovoltaic Cells -- Photoconductive Cells -- Photodiodes and Instrumentation -- Electro-Optics and Instrumentation -- Photocolorimetry -- Photoplethysmography (PPG) -- Blood Oxygen Measurement PPG -- 13. Biological Impedance Measurements -- What Is Impedance? -- Series-Parallel Equivalent Circuits -- Impedance Measurement -- Some Applications -- 14. Chemical Sensors -- Humidity Sensors -- Oxygen Sensors -- Electrodes for Reducing Gases/Vapors -- pH Electrodes -- Carbon Dioxide (CO[subscript 2]) Sensors.

ISBN

• 0138056315
• 9780138056315

LCCN

92014958

OCLC

• ocm25916858
• 25916858
• SCSB-9333379

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library