Micro Mechanical Transducers: Pressure Sensors, Accelerometers, and Gyroscopes (Handbook of Sensors and Actuators)

Min-Hang Bao, S. Middelhoek

ISBN 10: 044450558X / ISBN 13: 9780444505583

Verlag: Elsevier Science Ltd 2000-10-16, 2000

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Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 6666-ELS-9780444505583

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Micro Mechanical Transducers: Pressure Sensors, Accelerometers, and Gyroscopes (Handbook of Sensors and Actuators)
• Verlag: Elsevier Science Ltd 2000-10-16
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 044450558X
• ISBN-13: 9780444505583
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: New

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Inhaltsangabe

Some years ago, silicon-based mechanical sensors, like pressure sensors, accelerometers and gyroscopes, started their successful advance. Every year, hundreds of millions of these devices are sold, mainly for medical and automotive applications. The airbag sensor on which research already started several decades ago at Stanford University can be found in every new car and has saved already numerous lives. Pressure sensors are also used in modern electronic blood pressure equipment. Many other mechanical sensors, mostly invisible to the public, perform useful functions in countless industrial and consumer products. The underlying physics and technology of silicon-based mechanical sensors is rather complex and is treated in numerous publications scattered throughout the literature. Therefore, a clear need existed for a handbook that thoroughly and systematically reviews the present basic knowledge on these devices.After a short introduction, Professor Bao discusses the main issues relevant to silicon-based mechanical sensors. First a thorough treatment of stress and strain in diaphragms and beams is presented. Next, vibration of mechanical structures is illuminated, followed by a chapter on air damping. These basic chapters are then succeeded by chapters in which capacitive and piezoresistive sensing techniques are amply discussed. The book concludes with chapters on commercially available pressure sensors, accelerometers and resonant sensors in which the above principles are applied. Everybody, involved in designing silicon-based mechanical sensors, will find a wealth of useful information in the book, assisting the designer in obtaining highly optimized devices.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Charlotte y Peter Fiell son dos autoridades en historia, teoría y crítica del diseño y han escrito más de sesenta libros sobre la materia, muchos de los cuales se han convertido en éxitos de ventas. También han impartido conferencias y cursos como profesores invitados, han comisariado exposiciones y asesorado a fabricantes, museos, salas de subastas y grandes coleccionistas privados de todo el mundo. Los Fiell han escrito numerosos libros para TASCHEN, entre los que se incluyen 1000 Chairs, Diseño del siglo XX, El diseño industrial de la A a la Z, Scandinavian Design y Diseño del siglo XXI.