Handbook of Modern Sensors: Physics, Designs, and Applications [Hardcover]

Jacob Fraden (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 21, 2001 | ISBN-10: 1563965380 | ISBN-13: 978-1563965388 | Edition: 2nd

The Handbook's coverage of sensors is extensive, ranging from simple photodiodes to complex devices containing components in combination. It offers hard-to-find reference data on the properties of numerous materials and sensing elements and emphasizes devices that are less well-known, whose technology is still being refined, and whose use permits the measurement of variables that were previously inaccessible.

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FROM REVIEWS OF THE FIRST EDITION
"Jacob Fraden has produced a valuable, single-volume reference on the devices that bridge the analog and the digital worlds. I highly recommend it."
(LAWRENCE J. RUBIN, MIT)

From the Back Cover

This book is about devices commonly called sensors. Digital systems, however complex and intelligent they might be, must receive information from the outside world that is generally analog and not electrical. Sensors are interface devices between various physical values and the electronic circuits who "understand" only a language of moving electrical charges. In other words, sensors are the eyes, ears, and noses of silicon chips.

Unlike other books on sensors, this book is organized according to the measured variables (temperature, pressure, position, etc.) that make it much more practical and easier to read. In this new edition recent ideas and developments have been added while less important and non-essential designs were dropped. Sections on practical designs and use of the modern micro-machining technologies have been revised substantially.

This book is a reference text that can be used by students, researchers interested in modern instrumentation (applied physicists and engineers), sensor designers, application engineers and technicians whose job it is to understand, select and/or design sensors for practical systems.

The scope of this book is rather broad covering many different designs. Some are well known, but describing them is still useful for students and those who look for a convenient reference. It is the author’s intention to present a comprehensive and up-to-date account of the theory (physical principles), design, and practical implementations of various sensors for scientific, industrial, and consumer applications.

 

About the Author:

Jacob Fraden holds a Ph. D. in medical electronics and is the CEO of Advanced Monitors Corp., a company that produces medical and veterinary temperature sensors and monitors. He holds over 30 patents in the areas of sensing, medical instrumentation, consumer electronics, security, and others.

--This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 556 pages
• Publisher: American Institute of Physics; 2nd edition (September 21, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1563965380
• ISBN-13: 978-1563965388
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.4 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,767,737 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great, comprehensive overview, November 4, 2009

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Ross Moffett (Oklahoma USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Handbook of Modern Sensors: Physics, Designs, and Applications (Hardcover)

I think this book is great. It has a good portion dedicated to introduction to instrumentation and a lot of what I thought was fairly obscure knowledge about different sensors. It wasn't as in-depth as I would have liked when it came to how individual sensors might be designed, but that would make it into a pretty heavy book in retrospect.

3.0 out of 5 stars Missing Much, November 9, 2011

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Philip Alden "philalden" (Cupertino, CA) - See all my reviews
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This book lacks any discussion of several important types of sensors for chemical and biological applications. These gaps were apparent to me only because I was looking for a book that discussed those sensors. Not finding any mention of them left me wondering what else the book is missing.

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not a Good Educational Source, April 29, 2011

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This book assumes that you that you already know circuits well, and it doesn't explain things clearly. Most explanations are terse and skip many details or logical reasoning. I didn't learn much from reading through this book, and some of the assumptions that the book makes about flow sensors (using Bernoulli's equation for turbulent/nonlaminar, lossy flow) are just blatantly wrong. Mostly dense theory, and extremely unhelpful as a reference or educational resource. Not recommended. You're better off buying Introduction to Mechatronic Design (Carryer, Ohline, and Kennedy), which is much better at explaining and showing how certain sensors work, and actually how to incorporate them into real-world applications.