Design and implementation of an optimised wireless pressure sensor for biomedical application

Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 21-31

  Le, H P ^a,b   Shah, K ^a   Singh, J ^a,b   Zayegh, A ^a,b  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biomedical sensor; Capacitive sensing; Co simulation; MEMS; Vertical fringe capacitor

Indexed keywords

PRESSURE SENSOR; VERILOG-A MODELS;

ALGORITHMS; CAPACITORS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ENERGY UTILIZATION; OPTIMIZATION; SENSORS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 33745661920     PISSN: 09251030     EISSN: 15731979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10470-006-8118-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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