A self-balancing circuit to measure capacitance and loss conductance for industrial transducer applications

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 955-958

  Yang, W Q ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE MEASUREMENT; CONTROL EQUIPMENT; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE MEASUREMENT;

DIGITAL FEEDBACK SIGNALS; FORWARD PATH SIGNALS; INDUSTRIAL TRANSDUCERS; LOSS CONDUCTANCE MEASURING CIRCUIT; MICROCONTROLLER;

TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 0030389119     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/19.543992     Document Type: Article

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