A low-cost, stable reference capacitor for capacitive sensor systems

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 526-530

  Toth, Ferry N ^a   Beitels, Dorus ^b   Meijer, Gerard C M ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b Delft Instruments Group   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTRODES; GEOMETRY; PERMITTIVITY; SENSORS; SPECIFICATIONS; STABILITY; TEMPERATURE;

CAPACITIVE SENSOR SYSTEMS; REFERENCE CAPACITOR; TEMPERATURE COEFFICIENT;

CAPACITORS;

EID: 0030127202     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/19.492780     Document Type: Article

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