Current excitation method for δr measurement in piezo-resistive sensors with a 0.3-ppm resolution

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 767-774

  Gilda, Neena A ^a   Nag, Sudip ^a   Patil, Sheetal ^a   Baghini, Maryam Shojaei ^a   Sharma, Dinesh Kumar ^a   Ramgopal Rao, V ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

Bidirectional current source; Cantilevers; Current excitation; Piezo resistivity; Sensitivity; Wheatstone's bridge

Indexed keywords

BIDIRECTIONAL CURRENT; CANTILEVERS; CURRENT EXCITATION; SENSITIVITY; WHEATSTONE'S BRIDGE;

CHEMICAL SENSORS; RESISTORS;

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84857060779     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2011.2172118     Document Type: Article

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