Switched capacitor signal conditioning for differential capacitive sensors

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 913-917

  George, Boby ^a   Kumar, V Jagadeesh ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

Capacitive sensors; Differential capacitive sensor; Ratio metric measurement principle; Signal conditioning; Switched capacitor circuits

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; CAPACITORS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; SENSORS;

DC REFERENCE VOLTAGES; DIFFERENTIAL CAPACITIVE SENSORS; RATIO-METRIC MEASUREMENT PRINCIPLE; SWITCHED CAPACITOR CIRCUITS;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 34249005203     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2007.894802     Document Type: Article

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