Resistive, Capacitive, and Inductive Based Sensing Technologies

Based on design principles and exploited physical phenomena, this book presents a new approach to sensors and sensing technologies. The author discusses numerous modern sensor technologies and examines their applications in various industries. After reviewing the necessary physics, each subsequent chapter describes a range of sensors exploiting these phenomena including a spectrum of applications giving greater insight into the functioning and applications of the sensors. The text covers electronic circuitry, signal analysis, and material and manufacturing methods. It also includes problems, worked examples, exercises, and solutions.

Professor Winncy Y. Du (PE, ASME fellow) is the director of the Robotics, Sensor and Machine Intelligence Laboratory with the Department of Mechanical Engineering at San Jose State University, California, USA. She earned her Ph.D and second MS degree from Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA; her first MS from West Virginia University, Morgantown, USA; and her BS from Jilin University, China. She has worked as a journal editor, engineer, and researcher; taught over ten different undergraduate and graduate courses; published numerous papers; and contributed to the books Smart Sensors and Sensing Technology and Modern Sensors, Transducers and Sensor Networks.