A capacitance-based whisker-like artificial sensor for fluid motion sensing

Proceedings of IEEE Sensors

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 2224-2229

  Stocking, J B ^a   Eberhardt, W C ^a   Shakhsheer, Y A ^a   Calhoun, B H ^a   Paulus, J R ^b   Appleby, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b Mikro Systems Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC CUES; CAPACITANCE CHANGE; DESIGN FEATURES; EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION; EXPERIMENTAL TESTING; FLOW DIRECTION; FLOW SPEED; FLOW-INDUCED FORCES; FLUID ENVIRONMENT; FLUID MOTIONS; FOUR QUADRANT; HYDRODYNAMIC INFORMATION; MILLI-NEWTON; NUMERICAL MODELING; OSCILLATORY CONDITIONS; OUTPUT SIGNAL; PARALLEL PLATE CAPACITORS; PDMS MEMBRANE; POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE MEMBRANE; RESTORING FORCES; RIG TESTING; SIGNAL OUTPUT; TECHNICAL CHALLENGES; WATER TUNNEL;

ABILITY TESTING; CAPACITANCE; FLUIDS; MICROCHANNELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SILICONES;

SENSORS;

EID: 79951926406     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSENS.2010.5690637     Document Type: Conference Paper

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