A sensitive differential capacitance to voltage converter for sensor applications

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 89-96

  Lötters, Joost C ^b   Olthuis, Wouter ^c   Veltink, Peter H ^a,d   Bergveld, Piet ^c  

^a IEEE

^b Bronkhorst High Tech BV   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

(Differential) capacitance to voltage converter; Capacitive accelerometer; Differential measurement; Pspice simulations

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETERS; BRIDGE CIRCUITS; CAPACITANCE MEASUREMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC FREQUENCY MEASUREMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSORS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; VOLTAGE MEASUREMENT;

CAPACITANCE TO VOLTAGE CONVERTERS (CVC); CAPACITIVE ACCELEROMETERS; SOFTWARE PACKAGE PSPICE;

POWER CONVERTERS;

EID: 0032647929     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/19.755066     Document Type: Article

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