{"title":"Application of a 2-D anisotropic etching simulator on perforated etching of quartz wafer","authors":"M. Zhao, H. Oigawa, J. Ji, T. Ueda","doi":"10.1109/ICSENS.2011.6127322","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2011.6127322","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes features of a new anisotropic etching simulator and its applications on predicting perforated etching shape of quartz wafer. Specialized flow chart and relative process was designed to deal with etching after perforation. We present here two examples of its application on Z-plate and one example on AT-plate quartz crystal to show its good performance.","PeriodicalId":201386,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE SENSORS Proceedings","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126386346","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A wireless passive strain sensor","authors":"C. Mandel, M. Schussler, R. Jakoby","doi":"10.1109/ICSENS.2011.6126942","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2011.6126942","url":null,"abstract":"This paper introduces a wireless passive sensor concept for measurement of one- and two-dimensional strain and bending. An identification opportunity can easily be added to the sensor element to distinguish between different sensor “tags”. The concept is based on the modulation of the frequency domain backscatter signature of a radar target by the measured value. The target itself is realized as a small resonant metamaterial structure which generates an amplitude peak in the radar cross-section at resonance. The modulation is done by a variation of the capacitive element of the resonator by the measured quantity. Benefits of the presented design are the passive chipless buildup allowing a construction for the operation in harsh (e. g. high temperature) environments, the simple standard, low-cost fabrication process, the small footprint, the identification opportunity, the possibility of a FMCW-radar-based readout and the versatility of possible sensor designs.","PeriodicalId":201386,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE SENSORS Proceedings","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128060156","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Fericean, Andrea Hiller-Brod, A. Dorneich, Markus Fritton, J. Buchler, T. Holzschuh
{"title":"Development of a microwave displacement sensor for hydraulic devices","authors":"S. Fericean, Andrea Hiller-Brod, A. Dorneich, Markus Fritton, J. Buchler, T. Holzschuh","doi":"10.1109/ICSENS.2011.6127075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2011.6127075","url":null,"abstract":"The paper presents the fundamentals, design, realization and characterization of a state-of-the-art microwave (μW) based piston position detection sensor (PPDS) for stationary or moving pistons in hydraulic devices. This function has a high importance in industrial applications to provide a precise feeding in position controlled hydraulic drives. Today there are a limited number of methods used, all of which are cost-intensive and have specific weaknesses, such as the need for radical mechanical modifications in the cylinder structure, restricted robustness and life-time, respectively.","PeriodicalId":201386,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE SENSORS Proceedings","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125451647","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Bravo, M. López-Amo, O. Frazão, J. Baptista, J. L. Santos
{"title":"New interrogation technique for multiplexing LPG-fiber loop mirrors based displacement sensors using an OTDR","authors":"M. Bravo, M. López-Amo, O. Frazão, J. Baptista, J. L. Santos","doi":"10.1109/ICSENS.2011.6126990","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2011.6126990","url":null,"abstract":"A novel interrogation technique for multiplexing LPG-fiber loop mirrors has been proposed and experimentally demonstrated. Each displacement sensor is formed by a fiber loop mirror combined with a long period grating. This high reflectivity variable mirror is suitable to be interrogated by an OTDR and to be multiplexed in a crosstalk free setup with temperature independence.","PeriodicalId":201386,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE SENSORS Proceedings","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125671256","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A programmable plug&play interface for WSN applications","authors":"S. Vera, A. Bayo, N. Medrano, B. Calvo, S. Celma","doi":"10.1109/ICSENS.2011.6127136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2011.6127136","url":null,"abstract":"Cost reduction in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) becomes a must to extend their application to fields where a great amount of sensors is needed. In those cases, the use of smart sensors is expensive, consequently requiring the use of low-cost sensors followed by a versatile electronic interface able to adapt all the sensors used. This paper presents the design of a flexible interface, compatible with the most common types of analog sensors used in WSNs and with the property of self-configuration for each sensor. The proposed interface includes both electronic and software elements.","PeriodicalId":201386,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE SENSORS Proceedings","volume":"9 10","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113933611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A novel time-controlled interface circuit for resistive sensors","authors":"A. De Marcellis, G. Ferri, A. Depari, A. Flammini","doi":"10.1109/ICSENS.2011.6127099","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2011.6127099","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we present a novel interface circuit, suitable for wide range resistive sensors, capable to overcome the main limit of the circuits based on resistance-to-time (R-T) conversion approach, that is the long measuring time occurring in the evaluation of high-value sensor resistances. This solution is based on a particular oscillating circuit architecture which performs a “compression” of the higher part of the resistive range, thus limiting the measuring time. The interface is simply implemented by Operational Amplifiers (OAs) and passive components and is suitable to be integrated in a single chip. Since it employs an AC excitation voltage for the sensor, this front-end results to be capable to estimate both the sensor resistance over a wide range (5 decades) and its in-parallel parasitic capacitance, for diagnosis purposes and complete characterization of the sensor. PSpice simulation results have shown the feasibility of the proposed approach; in addition, experimental measurements, conducted through the fabricated prototype PCB and utilizing commercial sample resistors and capacitors to emulate sensor behaviour, have shown good performance in the resistive range 100kΩ–10GΩ with a maximum measuring time set to about 70ms, so confirming the theoretical expectations and the validity of the proposed sensor interface.","PeriodicalId":201386,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE SENSORS Proceedings","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131375138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chunyan Li, Pei-Ming Wu, Zhizhen Wu, C. Ahn, J. Hartings, R. Narayan
{"title":"Smart catheter flow sensor for continuous regional cerebral blood flow monitoring","authors":"Chunyan Li, Pei-Ming Wu, Zhizhen Wu, C. Ahn, J. Hartings, R. Narayan","doi":"10.1109/ICSENS.2011.6127287","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2011.6127287","url":null,"abstract":"This work reports on development of a novel smart catheter flow sensor (SCF) for continuous monitoring of regional cerebral blood flow (CBF). The SCF employs a periodic heating technique rather than continuous heating and calibrates itself every 5 seconds. This approach ensures zero drift for long-term continuous monitoring and can provide reliable data with MEMS-based thin film sensors. In addition, it uses a 4-wire configuration to eliminate lead wire effect and employs ratiometric measurement to deduce the resistance of SCF. Hence, it is more precise when compared to the bridge-type thermal diffusion flow sensor. The developed SCF has a sensitivity of 2.47mV/ml/min in the range from 0 to 100ml/min with a linear correlation coefficient of R2 = 0.9969. It achieves a resolution of 0.5ml/min and an accuracy better than 3ml/min of full scale with both temperature and medium thermal conductivity compensation.","PeriodicalId":201386,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE SENSORS Proceedings","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131983385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wearable wireless sensing for sports and ubiquitous interactivity","authors":"M. Lapinski, M. Feldmeier, J. Paradiso","doi":"10.1109/ICSENS.2011.6126902","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2011.6126902","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we overview recent work from our research group that explores two very different applications of wearable inertial systems. The first project exploits an array of wearable, ultrawide-range, synchronous IMUs to measure the performance of professional baseball players. We describe some special aspects of our hardware (a dual-range, 6-DOF IMU with magnetometer), and show sample data from our current analysis. We also overview another project where we leveraged wearable sensors, including a micropower integrating accelerometer, for mobile personalized comfort control of building HVAC (heating/air conditioning) systems.","PeriodicalId":201386,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE SENSORS Proceedings","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132200609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reflectometric fiber optic sensor for distributed measurement of intense magneto-static fields","authors":"L. Palmieri, A. Galtarossa","doi":"10.1109/ICSENS.2011.6127175","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2011.6127175","url":null,"abstract":"A novel, distributed fiber optic sensor for the vector characterization of static magnetic fields is presented. The sensor is based on Faraday rotation and on the analysis of the state of polarization of the Rayleigh backscattered field. Specifically, the sensor measures the projection of the magnetic field vector in the direction of the fiber. By exploiting this feature and properly arranging the fiber, multi-dimensional maps of the magnetic field can be built. Owing to the faintness of Faraday rotation in standard optical fibers, the proposed sensor is most suited for intense magnetic fields. Experimental results are presented to show the successful measurement of the magnetic field of a 1.5-T magnetic resonance imaging scanner, with a relative accuracy of about 7% and a spatial resolution (along the fiber) of 3 cm.","PeriodicalId":201386,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE SENSORS Proceedings","volume":"118 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132415710","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. Chung, Ajit Khosla, Sam Seyfollahi, Bonnie L. Gray, A. Parameswaran, R. Ramaseshan, K. Kohli
{"title":"Embedded process for flexible conductive electrodes for applications in tissue electrical impedance scanning (EIS)","authors":"D. Chung, Ajit Khosla, Sam Seyfollahi, Bonnie L. Gray, A. Parameswaran, R. Ramaseshan, K. Kohli","doi":"10.1109/ICSENS.2011.6127372","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2011.6127372","url":null,"abstract":"We present the fabrication and testing of micro-patternable flexible conductive nanoparticle composite polymer (C-NCP) electrode arrays for electrical impedance scanning (EIS). We attempt to minimize EIS issues of mechanical skin contact and resolution through the use of highly compliant micropatternable elastomeric C-NCPs. We anticipate an increase in spatial resolution as the electrodes can be patterned into high density arrays using a new multi-level process presented here for the first time. We characterize the conductivity of the electrodes (average resistivity of 2.98×10−4 ohm-m +/− 8.3% at 60 wt-% of silver nanoparticles), compare the baseline impedance map with a new circuit phantom, and demonstrate anomaly detection in a gelatin tissue phantom using highly flexible Ag/AgCl C-NCP electrodes.","PeriodicalId":201386,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE SENSORS Proceedings","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130260206","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}