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The demand for portable and lightweight sensors is relentless in several industries, from consumer electronics to biomedical engineering to the military. This book brings together the latest research in smart sensors technology and exposes the reader to myriad applications that the technology has enabled. Contributors delve into advanced topics in photonics and optoelectronic, infrared and thermal, magnetic and inductive, sound and ultrasound, and piezoresistive, wireless, and electrical sensors. Applications include oxygen detection, sensing inside explosions, magnetic field measurements on airplanes, health monitoring, and more.

Written by experts from industry and academia around the world, this book focuses on electrical engineering and elaborates on how electrical circuits interface with biology, microfluidics, and photonics. Including only light math and physics, with greater focus on explanation, it covers integrated devices and other emerging structures required for future micro- and nanotechnologies. This material addresses physical and chemical sensing, imaging, smart actuation, and data fusion and management. Providing tables, figures, and equations to help illustrate concepts, the book¿s contributors examine and explain the potential of emerging applications that are in integrated microsystems.

This handbook gives a comprehensive snapshot of the state of the art in nanodevices for nanoelectronics applications. Combining breadth and depth, the book includes 68 chapters on topics that range from nano-scaled CMOS devices through developments in nano capacitors. Among the nanodevices covered are single electron transistors and other electron tunneling devices, quantum cellular automata, memristors, graphene and carbon nanotube transistors, nanowire transistors, and nanodevices for spintronics. Featuring contributions by world-renowned experts, this is an invaluable source of ideas for anyone working in this rapidly expanding field.

Although there have been extensive developments in computing and communications needs of integrated microsystems, the sensors required to conduct advanced and integrated tasks are only now seeing transformational change. With their huge potential interfacing applications for biological and medical fields, sensors will soon become ubiquitous. Focusing heavily on practical applications but remaining light on physics and math, this book addresses the developments necessary to make truly integrated sensors a reality in physical, biological, optical, and chemical sensing, as well as future micro- and nanotechnologies.

Microsystems technologies have found their way into an impressive variety of applications, from mobile phones and displays to smart grids and electric cars. This book explores the state of the art and the applications of microelectronics technologies. It covers a wide range of topics, including organic and flexible electronics, imaging and display technologies, sensing, and biomedical microsystems. The book serves as a source of inspiration for anyone who wants to further develop the technologies, create new applications, or get a better understanding of this multidisciplinary field.

This book reviews past, present, and emerging optical laser-based technologies for the detection of explosives. Each chapter is authored by a leading expert on the respective technology, and is structured to offer historical perspective, address current advantages and challenges, and discuss novel research and applications. With the ultimate goal of aiding military and security forces in increasing speed and accuracy of explosive detection and identification, the text covers terahertz, laser-induced breakdown, ultrafast, cavity ringdown, Raman, and reflectance spectroscopy, photodissociation laser-induced fluorescence, hyperspectral imaging, and more.

This book provides a fundamental understanding of the design, operation, and practical applications of fiber optic sensing systems. It describes the physical principles of, and latest developments in, optical fiber sensors, supplying detailed examples of various technologies in use. Chapters address state-of-the-art topics and emerging areas of research including photonic crystal fiber sensors, micro- and nanofiber sensing, and liquid crystal photonics. The text draws upon the extensive academic and industrial experience of its contributing authors to deliver a comprehensive introduction with a strong practical focus.

This book addresses the problem of soft errors in digital integrated circuits subjected to the terrestrial natural radiation environment, providing comprehensive knowledge of the complete chain of the physics of soft errors. The text discusses particle interactions with matter, soft-error mechanisms, and instrumentation developments in environment characterization, particle detection, and real-time and accelerated tests. It describes the latest computational developments, modeling, and simulation strategies for the soft error-rate estimation in digital circuits. It also explores trends for future technological nodes and emerging devices.

There is a need to understand and combat potential radiation damage problems in semiconductor devices and circuits. This book explains the effects of radiation on semiconductor devices, radiation detectors, and electronic devices and components. It explores the applications, detector technologies, and circuit design techniques.

Covers research in semiconductor detector and integrated circuit design in the context of medical imaging using ionizing radiation. This book explores other applications of semiconductor radiation detection systems in security applications such as luggage scanning, dirty bomb detection and border control.

Presents illustrations, industry examples, and instructions on the application of wireless and optical networks. This title covers such topics as wireless networks such as WLAN, WPAN, 3G/4G cellular, and RF transmission; and optical networks involving long-haul and metropolitan networks, optical fiber, photonic devices, and VLSI chips.

Explores the state-of-the-art in CMOS design in the context of wireless communication for 3G/4G cellular telephony, wireless sensor networks, and wireless medical applications. This text explores coverage of emerging wireless technologies beyond standard WLAN and 3G cell phone applications.