A high-stability capacitance sensor system and its evaluation

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 955-961

  Avramov Zamurovic, Svetlana ^a,b   Lee, Rae Duk ^b  

^a UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Capacitance measurement; Capacitance sensor; Electric field simulation; Humidity; Temperature variations

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; CAPACITANCE MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; MOISTURE; SENSORS; SYSTEM STABILITY;

AMBIENT CONDITIONS; CAPACITANCE SENSOR; CAPACITANCE-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTERS; ELECTRIC FIELD SIMULATION; HIGH STABILITIES; HUMIDITY; ITS EVALUATIONS; MICRO CONTROLLERS; SIMULATION AND TESTING; STANDARD CAPACITORS; TEMPERATURE INFLUENCES; TEMPERATURE VARIATIONS;

HUMIDITY CONTROL;

EID: 63449119470     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2008.2007039     Document Type: Conference Paper

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