Novel ferrofluidic inertial sensors

Conference Record - IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 2368-2372

  Baglio, Salvatore ^a   Barrera, Paola ^a   Savalli, Nicolò ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Accelerometer; Ferrofluid; Magnetically tunable

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC COILS; MAGNETIC FLUIDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TUNING;

DIFFERENTIAL CONFIGURATION; FERROFLUIDIC AGGLOMERATE POSITION; INERTIAL SENSORS; MAGNETICALLY TUNABLE;

SENSORS;

EID: 33947419418     PISSN: 10915281     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IMTC.2006.235526     Document Type: Conference Paper

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