Wireless MEMS Networks and Applications (Woodhead Publishing Series in Electronic and Optical Materials) - Hardcover

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9780081004494: Wireless MEMS Networks and Applications (Woodhead Publishing Series in Electronic and Optical Materials)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0081004494 ISBN 13: 9780081004494
Publisher: Woodhead Publishing, 2016

Synopsis

Wireless MEMS Networks and Applications reviews key emerging applications of MEMS in wireless and mobile networks. This book covers the different types of wireless MEMS devices, also exploring MEMS in smartphones, tablets, and the MEMS used for energy harvesting.

The book reviews the range of applications of wireless MEMS networks in manufacturing, infrastructure monitoring, environmental monitoring, space applications, agricultural monitoring for food safety, health applications, and systems for smart cities.

  • Focuses on the use of MEMS in the emerging area of wireless applications
  • Contains comprehensive coverage of the range of applications of MEMS for wireless networks
  • Presents an international range of expert contributors who identify key research in the field

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About the Author

Deepak Uttamchandani is Professor of Microsystems Engineering at the University of Strathclyde, UK. Since the late 1980s he has been conducting research in the field of microtechnology including: techniques for the characterisation of micromechanical properties of materials; optically excited microresonator sensors; commercial-foundry-centred microfabrication of MEMS in polysilicon and silicon-on-insulator, MEMS design and radio-frequency (RF) MEMS. He has edited 2 books, guest-edited 2 journals and authored/co-authored around 200 publications. He has been a member of the UK EPSRC ranking panels (responsible for government funding of engineering research), was a member of the Basic Technology programme (org. by the UK government to find emerging technologies) and served on one of the UK Dept of Trade and Industry (DTI) Technology Programme panels in 2004.

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Publisher
Woodhead Publishing
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0081004494
ISBN 13 
9780081004494
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
288
Editor
Uttamchandani Deepak