Contactless impedance sensors and their application to flow measurements

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 2786-2801

  Opekar, František ^a   Tůma, Petr ^a   Štulík, Karel ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Conductivity detection; Contactless detector; Impedance detector; Permittivity detection

Indexed keywords

CONDUCTIVITY DETECTION; CONDUCTIVITY SENSORS; CONTACT LESS; CRITICAL DISCUSSIONS; FLOW-INJECTION ANALYSIS; FLOW-THROUGH MEASUREMENT; IMPEDANCE DETECTORS; OPERATIONAL PARAMETERS;

CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS; CHEMICAL REACTORS; ELECTRODES; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY;

SENSORS;

CELLS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GENETIC PROCEDURES; IMPEDANCE; REVIEW; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; CELLS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84875158146     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s130302786     Document Type: Review

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