A reusable smart interface for gas sensor resistance measurement

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1173-1178

  Merino, José Luis ^a   Bota, Sebastián A ^b   Casanova, Raimon ^a   Diéguez, Angel ^a   Cané, Carles ^c   Samitier, Josep ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO DE MICROELECTRÓNICA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL SENSORS; CONTROL SYSTEMS; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC NETWORK SYNTHESIS; GAS DETECTORS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

CIRCUIT SYNTHESIS; INTERFACE CIRCUIT; MIXED ANALOG DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUIT; SENSOR ARRAYS; SMART SENSOR;

ELECTRIC RESISTANCE MEASUREMENT;

EID: 4043082635     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2004.831459     Document Type: Article

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