A novel interface for eddy current displacement sensors

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1623-1632

  Nabavi, Mohammad Reza ^a   Nihtianov, Stoyan ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Displacement sensors; Eddy current; Low power front end; Sensor interfacing; Thermal drift

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL RESULTS; BIT RESOLUTIONS; COMPLEMENTARY METAL-OXIDE SEMICONDUCTORS; DISPLACEMENT SENSORS; EDDY CURRENT DISPLACEMENT SENSORS; FRONT-END CIRCUITS; FULL-SCALE RANGES; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; INTERFACE CIRCUITS; INTERFACE SYSTEMS; LOW-POWER CONSUMPTION; LOW-POWER FRONT-END; LOW-THERMAL DRIFTS; MEASUREMENT METHODS; SIGNAL BANDWIDTHS; SIGNAL CONDITIONING CIRCUITS; SIMULATION RESULTS; SUB MICROMETERS; SYSTEM IN A PACKAGES; TEMPERATURE DRIFTS; THERMAL DRIFT; THERMAL STABILITIES;

EDDY CURRENTS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; LOGIC CIRCUITS; OPTICAL SENSORS; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS;

EDDY CURRENT TESTING;

EID: 65549111165     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2009.2012945     Document Type: Conference Paper

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