Introduction about sensors and transducers, Principles of operation and their classification, characteristics of sensors, Principles of Sensing: Capacitance, Inductance, Resistance, Inductance, Piezoelectric Effect, Pyroelectric Effect, Magnetism, Hall effect.
Input Characteristics of Interface Circuits, Amplifiers, Excitation Circuits, Analog-to-Digital Converters, Noise in Sensors and Circuits, Sensor interfacing and Signal Conditioning, Stepper motor and DC motor.
Materials: Silicon as a Sensing Material, Plastics, Metals, Ceramics, Glasses, Surface Processing, Deposition of Thin and Thick Films, Spin-Casting, Vacuum Deposition, Sputtering, Chemical Vapor Deposition, Nano- Photolithography, Silicon Micromachining.
Introduction, Film Sensors, Semiconductor IC Technology, Microelectromechanical System (MEMS), Comparison between MEMS and Macro sensor, Pressure Sensors, Flow Sensors, Humidity and Moisture Sensors, Light sensors, Radiation sensor, Temperature sensor, Biosensors.
Automotive Sensors, Home Appliance Sensors, Medical Diagnostic Sensors, Sensors for Environmental Monitoring and weather monitoring.
Reference Book:
1.K Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh, Benjamin Fry, Nanotechnology-Enabled Sensors, Springer, Boston, MA, 2008 2.Jon Wilson, “Sensor Technology”, Elsevier, 2005. 3.Sabrie Soloman, Sensors Handbook, McGraw-Hill Education; August 2009.
Text Book:
1.Simon M. Sze, “Semiconductor Sensors”, Wiley Publications, 1994 2.Jacob Fraden, “Handbook of Modern Sensors”, Third Edition, Springer, 2004
