A wireless pressure-measurement system using a saw hybrid sensor

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 2730-2735

  Schimetta, Gernot ^a   Dollinger, Franz ^b   Weigel, Robert ^b  

^a JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Pressure measurement; Surface acoustic wave delay lines; Telemetry

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SURFACE WAVE DEVICES; ELECTRIC DELAY LINES; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; MICROCONTROLLERS; MIRRORS; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TELEMETERING; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

PRESSURE SENSORS;

HYBRID SENSORS;

EID: 0034429471     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.899037     Document Type: Article

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