Investigation of the effects of design parameters on output characteristics of capacitive angular displacement sensors by finite element field modelling

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 33, Issue 2 PART 2, 1997, Pages 2081-2084

  Khan, S H ^a,b   Finkelstein, L ^b   Abdullah, F ^b  

^a IEEE   (United Kingdom)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC MOTORS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PERMITTIVITY; SENSORS;

CAPACITIVE ANGULAR DISPLACEMENT SENSORS; TORQUE MOTORS;

MAGNETIC DEVICES;

EID: 0031095003     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.582728     Document Type: Article

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