The influence of electric-field bending on the nonlinearity of capacitive sensors

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 256-259

  Li, Xiujun ^b   De Jong, Gerben ^b   Meijer, Gerard C M ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Capacitive sensor; Electric field bending; Multiple electrodes; Nonlinearity

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; CAPACITORS; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRODES; MODELS;

CAPACITIVE POSITION SENSORS; ELECTRIC FIELD BENDING EFFECT; LINEAR APPROXIMATION;

SENSORS;

EID: 0033686440     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/19.843059     Document Type: Article

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