Harsh Environment Silicon Carbide Sensors for Health and Performance Monitoring of Aerospace Systems: A Review

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1472-1478

  Senesky, Debbie G ^a   Cheng, Kan Bun ^a   Pisano, Albert P ^a   Jamshidi, Babak ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerospace; harsh environment; high temperature sensors; silicon carbide (SiC); structural monitoring

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008030876     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: 15581748     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2009.2026996     Document Type: Article

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