Smart Sensor Systems: Emerging Technologies and Applications

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.

Professor Gerard C. M. Meijer, Electronic Instrumentation Laboratory, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands
Professor Meijer is currently a full professor of the Laboratory of Electronic Instrumentation at Delft University of Technology and since 1972 he has been a member of the Research and Teaching staff of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering. His main areas of research concern smart sensor systems and analog interface electronics. He has performed application-oriented research on sensor-interface circuits and fundamental research on the accuracy of voltage references, integrated temperature sensors, effects of mechanical stress in integrated circuits and the effects at high temperatures in integrated circuits.
Professor Meijer chairs the national organization 'Sensorplatform' of the Dutch Technology Foundation STW, and the program 'Autonomous Sensor Systems' a national research program. His work has been published in over 280 papers and he has won numerous awards including 'Simon-Stevin Meester' honouree degree in 1999, and the 'Anthony van Leeuwenhoek' chair at TUdelft in 2001.

Contributors:
Bernhard Boser, University of California, Berkeley
Jan Bosiers, Dalsa, the Netherlands
Tim Denison, Medtronic, USA
Johan Huijsing, TUDelft, the Netherlands
Kofi Makinwa, TUDelft, the Netherlands
Michiel Pertijs, Holst Centre, the Netherlands
Roland Thewes, Infineon, Germany
Tim Tiek, Sensata, the Netherlands
Albert Theuwissen, TUDelft, the Netherlands