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Capacitive Sensors: Design and Applications (IEEE Press Series on Electronics Technology)

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Capacitive sensors are proliferating in OEM products despite the widely held superstition that they're hard to use and sensitive to humidity. Baxter covers the theoretical background, practical circuit design, and materials and stability issues for these devices, and ends by analyzing half a dozen products which use capacitive sensors. The writing is smooth and easy to follow, but there's enough detail for anyone.

I found this book an easy read. The author did not deal heavily in mathmatics but relied more on examples of working products. A good "hands-on" book for scientists and technician alike.

I bought this product because I'm working on a user interface development using capacitive sensors, and it wasn't very clear for me how these devices work. This book has helped me to understand more from the mathematical and scientific point of view how to design and use these sensors. It has a little bit of complex maths but you can solve this easily by using a graphical calculator like TI.

The content is far away from theoretical details and very practical (quite normal since the author is a company guy). The language is simple and easy to follow. However, the organization is ?awful?.

The necessary text to provide the link between the topics is not provided. Within a chapter and between chapters, it jumps from a topic to another. If you do not have the necessary background, you get lost. The titles and subtitles are not well organized enough to provide a logical flow. There should be some link between them but you need to figure it out by yourself. Author does not help you to absorb the information by providing the necessary logical flow throughout the text. The basics are there, the information to understand capacitive sensors is there, but it is difficult to assimilate it. I think this is basically due to lack of teaching experience of the author. It is like a taking a basic course from a terrible instructor.

If you are a beginner and do not have a "good" background in analog/digital electronics and sensor interfaces, you will get lost and get headaches while reading. If you are very good with these topics, it will help you a lot to specifically focus on capacitive sensors.

Shortly, excellent for sensor and sensor interface experts but not good for beginners on these topics (which would be simply by necessary re-organisation and providing the text to fill the gaps between the topics.)

To many stuff in one,its realy messy if youre not well known with practical electronics so i dont recomed it for beginers,its nice for reading and i found 30 % useful information for my project.