Low-Cost CMOS Interface for Capacitive Sensors and Its Application in a Capacitive Angular Encoder

Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 223-233

  Li, Xiujun ^a,b,c   De Jong, Gerben W ^a,b,d,e   Meijer, Gerard C M ^a,b,f,g   Toth, Ferry N ^a,b,h,i   Van Der Goes, Frank M L ^a,b,e  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b Nankai University ^*

^c NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Dept of Electrical Engineering

^e PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^f Delft Instruments Tang Gauging BV   (Netherlands)

^g IEEE   (Netherlands)

^h Intgd Transceivers Grp Philips R   (Netherlands)

ⁱ Enraf BV   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Capacitance measurement; Capacitive sensor; Sensor interface

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE MEASUREMENT; CAPACITORS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MICROCOMPUTERS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); SENSORS;

CAPACITIVE ANGULAR ENCODER; CAPACITIVE SENSORS; INTERFACE CHIPS;

INTERFACES (COMPUTER);

EID: 0031272967     PISSN: 09251030     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008242003007     Document Type: Article

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