A flexible flow sensor system and its characteristics for fluid mechanics measurements

Sensors

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 9533-9543

  Liu, Peng ^a   Zhu, Rong ^a   Que, Ruiyi ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Flexible printed circuit board; Flow measurement; Hot film flow sensor

Indexed keywords

FLEXIBLE PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS; FLOW-SENSORS; MATERIALS SELECTION; MECHANICS MEASUREMENTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING CIRCUITS; SPUTTERING TECHNOLOGY; TEMPERATURE COEFFICIENT OF RESISTANCE; TRANSIENT CHARACTERISTIC;

FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLUID MECHANICS; PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

SENSORS;

EID: 77950254579     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s91209533     Document Type: Article

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