A flexible low-power high-resolution integrated interface for capacitive sensors

IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 3347-3350

  Heidary, Ali ^a   Shalmany, Saleh Heidary ^a   Meijer, Gerard ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTO CALIBRATION; CAPACITANCE VALUES; CAPACITIVE SENSOR; CHARGE AMPLIFIERS; HIGH RESOLUTION; INPUT CAPACITANCE; INTEGRATED INTERFACE; LOW POWER; MEASUREMENT TIME; NON-LINEARITY ERRORS; PARASITIC CAPACITANCE; SILICON AREA; SWITCHED CAPACITOR;

CAPACITANCE; RELAXATION OSCILLATORS; SENSORS;

INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS;

EID: 78650407507     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISIE.2010.5637984     Document Type: Conference Paper

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