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Thoroughly updated, revised and expanded, this second edition of a popular textbook now includes much more material on chemical sensors and chemical-biological sensors. It focuses on recent developments including Radar and Lidar sensors, lightning detector sensors, gunshot detector sensors, and more.
List of contents
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Performance characteristics of sensors and actuators
- Chapter 3: Temperature sensors and thermal actuators
- Chapter 4: Optical sensors and actuators
- Chapter 5: Electric and magnetic sensors and actuators
- Chapter 6: Mechanical sensors and actuators
- Chapter 7: Acoustic sensors and actuators
- Chapter 8: Chemical and biological sensors and actuators
- Chapter 9: Radiation sensors and actuators
- Chapter 10: MEMS and smart sensors and actuators
- Chapter 11: Interfacing methods and circuits
- Chapter 12: Interfacing to microprocessors
- Appendix A: Least squares polynomials and data fitting
- Appendix B: Thermoelectric reference tables
- Appendix C: Computation on microprocessors
- Answers to problems
About the author
Nathan Ida is Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Akron, USA. He teaches electromagnetics, antenna theory, electromagnetic compatibility, sensing and actuation, and computational methods and algorithms. His research interests are various but include numerical modelling of electromagnetic fields. He serves as Editor in Chief for
Sensing and Imaging and is a board member of the
IET International Book Series on Sensors.
Summary
In this revised and expanded second edition, the author looks at sensors and actuators based on a broad area of detection technologies and methods. He takes a general and applications-oriented approach to the topic and makes it discipline-independent to cater for a broad audience.
