Capacitive-sensor interface with high accuracy and stability

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1633-1639

  Nojdelov, Roumen ^a   Nihtianov, Stoyan ^b,c  

^a Velista ET   (Bulgaria)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c ASML   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Capacitance to digital converter; Charge amplifier; Charge meter; Multislope analog to digital conversion (ADC)

Indexed keywords

BAND-PASS FILTERING; CABLE CAPACITANCES; CAPACITANCE-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTER; CHARGE AMPLIFIER; CHARGE METER; CONVERSION PROCESS; CONVERSION TIME; DYNAMIC RANGES; LONG-TERM STABILITIES; LOW NOISE; MEASUREMENT PRINCIPLES; MULTISLOPE ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERSION (ADC); OPERATION MODES; OVER SAMPLINGS; RESISTANCE RATIOS; SENSOR INTERFACES; TEMPERATURE CO-EFFICIENT;

CABLES; FREQUENCY CONVERTERS; LEAKAGE CURRENTS; MULTICARRIER MODULATION; SENSORS; TIME VARYING SYSTEMS;

CAPACITANCE;

EID: 67349088721     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2009.2012957     Document Type: Conference Paper

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