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Vol.
101, Issue 2, February 2009
Research Articles
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Preliminary Characterization of a Commercial Chiral Stationary Phase as a
Selector for Chemical Sensor Applications Using a Quartz Crystal
Microbalance
W. J. Buttner, C-L. Lu,
V. Perez-Luna, J. R. Stetter and G. K.
Webster..................................
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New Copolymers Containing Charge Carriers
for Organic Devices with ITO Films Treated by UV-OzoneUsing High Intensity
Discharge Lamp
Emerson Roberto Santos, Fábio Conte Correia, Elvo Calixto Burini Junior, Shu Hui
Wang, Marcia Akemi Yamasoe, Pilar Hidalgo, Fernando Josepetti Fonseca, Adnei Melges
de
Andrade.............................................................................................................................
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Aquaregia and Oxygen Plasma Treatments on
Fluorinated Tin Oxide for Assembly of PLEDs Devices Using OC1C10-PPV as Emissive Polymer
Emerson
Roberto Santos, Elvo Calixto Burini Junior, Fernando Josepetti
Fonseca................... |
22 |
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Electrical Conduction and Humidity Sensing
Properties of NiCr2O4-ZnO-CeO2 Composites
L. Regina Mary, K. S. Nagaraja............................................................................................. |
31 |
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Humidity and Electrical Sensing Properties
of NiCr2O4–ZnO–MnO2 Composites
Regina Mary L., Jeyaraj B. and Nagaraja K.
S........................................................................ |
42 |
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Poly (3, 4-Ethylenedioxythiophene) - Poly
(4-Styrenesulfonate) for Humidity Sensing Using Ink-jet Printing Technique on Flexible Polyimide
Substrate
Hee C. Lim, Yew Fong Hor, Yew L. Hor, James L. Zunino III and John F. Federici.................... |
52 |
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Cobalt Doped SnO2 Thick Film Gas
Sensors: Conductance and Gas Response Characteristics for LPG and CNG Gas
V. Kumar, S. K. Srivastava, Kiran Jain.................................................................................. |
60 |
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Study on Gas Sensing Performance of TiO2
Screen Printed Thick Films
C. G. Dighavkar, A. V. Patil and R. Y. Borse......................................................................... |
73 |
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Metal Oxides Doped PPY-PVA Blend Thin Films
Based Gas Sensor
D. B. Dupare, M. D. Shirsat and A. S. Aswar......................................................................... |
82 |
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Surface
Morphology Dependent Copper Sulphide Ammonia Gas Sensor Working at Room
Temperature: Effect of SHI
Irradiation
Ramphal Sharma, Abhay A. Sagade, J. C. Vyas , P. K. Nema, Anil Ghule
and Sung-Hwan Han |
90 |
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NO2
Gas Sensing Properties of Screen Printed ZnO Thick Films
A. V. Patil, C. G. Dighavkar and R. Y. Borse......................................................................... |
96 |
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Loss
of Capacitance Ideality in Label-Free Immuno-Chip
Sandro Carrara, Vijayender Bhalla, Luca Benini, Bruno Samorě................................................ |
104 |
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Development
of an Optical Urea Biosensor Using Polypyrrole-polyvinyl Sulphonate Film
H. J. Kharat, K. Datta, P. Ghosh, Mahendra D. Shirsat........................................................... |
112 |
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Performance
Comparison of SPR Sensors Based on Chalcogenide and Silica Glass Prisms
Rajan Jha and Anuj
K. Sharma |
123 |
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Non-invasive
Blood Glucose Quantification Using a Hybrid Sensor
Sundararajan Jayapal, Dr. V. Palanisamy, Sandeep Mandyam................................................. |
132 |
Vol.
102, Issue 3, March 2009
Editorial
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Smart Sensor Systems: Book Review
IFSA, pp.I-II.......................................................................................................................
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Research Articles
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Design of a Smart and High Precision
Industrial Temperature Measurement and Monitoring System Using K-type Thermocouple
and SPI-compatible Temperature Sensor
Utpal Sarma, Digbijoy Chakraborty, P. K. Boruah..................................................................
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1 |
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IEEE
1451.0-2007 Compatible Smart Sensor Readout with Error Compensation Using FPGA
J. Kamala and B.
Umamaheswari.........................................................................................
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10 |
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Predicting the Deflections of Micromachined
Electrostatic Actuators Using Artificial Neural Network (ANN)
Hing Wah Lee, Mohd. Ismahadi Syono and Ishak Hj. Abd. Azid..............................................
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22 |
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Conception and Development of a Portable
Electronic Nose System for Classification of Raw Milk Using Principal Component
Analysis Approach
Hing Wah Lee, Mohd. Ismahadi Syono and Ishak Hj.
Abd. Azid..............................................
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33 |
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Viscosity Measurement Using Microcontroller
to Study the Thermal Degradation of Edible Oil
Neelameagam Periyasamy, Rubalya Valantina Sathianathan and Murugananthan
Krishnamoorthy...................................................................................................................
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45 |
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Problems of Terminology in the Field of
Measuring Instruments with Elements of Artificial Intelligence
Roald Taymanov, Ksenia Sapozhnikova |
51 |
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Microcontroller Based Closed Loop PMDC Motor
Position Control System
Subrata Chattopadhyay, Utpal Chakraborty, Arindam Bhakta and Sagarika
Pal
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62 |
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Discrete Time Sliding Mode Control Using
Fast Output Sampling Feedback for Piezoelectric Actuated Structures
L. R. Karl Marx, M. Umapathy, A. Girija, D. Ezhilarasi............................................................
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71 |
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A
Particle Swarm Optimization of Natural Ventilation Parameters in a Greenhouse
with Continuous Roof Vents
Abdelhafid Hasni, Belkacem Draoui, Thierry Boulard, Rachid Taibi and Brahim
Dennai.............
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84 |
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Experimental
and Computational Study of Two-phase (Air–Palm Oil) Flow through Pipe and
Control Valve in Series
Arivazhagan M., Pugalenthi, Krishna Karthik K., Rani Hemamalini, Sundaram
S...................... |
94 |
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The
Effect on Pressure Drop across Control Valve for Two Phase Flow (Air-Water)
Arivazhagan M, Krishna Karthik K, Sundaram
S....................................................................
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105 |
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RBIC-Lite
– a Family of Signal Conditioning ICs of ZMD
Krauss Gudrun, Krauss Mathias...........................................................................................
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115 |
Vol. 5, Special Issues, March 2009
Research Articles
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Foreword
Pierre
Payeur,
Emil Petriu...................................................................................................
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1 |
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An Omnidirectional Stereoscopic
System for Mobile Robot Navigation
Rémi
Boutteau, Xavier Savatier, Jean-Yves Ertaud, Bélahcčne Mazari....................................
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Movement in Collaborative Robotic
Environments Based on the Fish Shoal Emergent Patterns
Razvan
Cioarga, Mihai V. Micea, Vladimir Cretu, Emil M. Petriu..............................................
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18 |
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A Multiscale Calibration of a
Photon Videomicroscope for Visual Servo Control: Application to MEMS
Micromanipulation and Microassembly
Brahim
Tamadazte, Sounkalo Dembélé and Nadine Piat........................................................
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37 |
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A Study on Dynamic Stiffening of a
Rotating Beam with a Tip Mass
Shengjian Bai, Pinhas Ben-Tzvi, Qingkun Zhou, Xinsheng
Huang...........................................
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53 |
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Towards a Model and Specification
for Visual Programming of Massively Distributed Embedded Systems
Meng Wang, Varun Subramanian, Alex Doboli, Daniel Curiac, Dan Pescaru
and Codruta Istin...
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69 |
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Effect
of Firing Temperature on Humidity Sensing Properties of SnO2 Thick Film Resistor
R. Y.
Borse and A. S.
Garde...............................................................................................
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86 |
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Design and Analysis of a Fast
Steering Mirror for Precision Laser Beams Steering
Qingkun
Zhou, Pinhas Ben-Tzvi and Dapeng
Fan..................................................................
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104 |
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Neural Gas and Growing Neural Gas
Networks for Selective 3D Sensing: a Comparative Study
Ana-Maria
Cretu, Pierre Payeur and Emil M. Petriu................................................................ |
119 |
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Vol.
103, Issue 4, April 2009
Research Articles
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Frontiers of Nanosensor Technology
Vinod Kumar Khanna..........................................................................................................
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1 |
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Dual Comb Unit High-g Accelerometer Based on
CMOS-MEMS Technology
Mehrdad Mottaghi, Farzan Ghalichi, Habib B. Ghavifekr.........................................................
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17 |
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Modeling of Micromachined Thermopiles
Powered from the Human Body for Energy Harvesting in Wearable Devices
Vladimir
Leonov, Ziyang Wang, Paolo Fiorini and Chris Van
Hoof............................................
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29 |
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Design and Development of Polysilicon-based
Microhotplate for Gas Sensing Application
Mahanth
Prasad, V. K. Khanna and Ram Gopal....................................................................
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44 |
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Design of a Capacitive SOI Micromachined
Accelerometer
Wenjing Zhao, Limei Xu......................................................................................................
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52 |
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Characteristic Features of RF MEMS Switches
and its Various Applications
B. Mishra, Z.
C.
Alex...........................................................................................................
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65 |
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Study on the Effects of Added Mass on
Mechanical Behavior of a Microbeam
Mohammad Fathalilou, Ghader Rezazadeh, Yashar Alizadeh, Soheil Talebian......................... |
73 |
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Titanium Hydride Formation in Current-Biased
Titanium Microbolometer and Nanobolometer Devices
S. F. Gilmartin, K. Arshak, D. Collins, B. Lane, D. Bain, S. B. Newcomb, B.
McCarthy, A. Arshak.............................................................................................................................. |
83 |
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Squeeze-Film Damping Effect on Dynamic
Pull-in Voltage of an Electrostatically-Actuated Microbeam
Hadi Yagubizade, Mohammad Fathalilou, Ghader Rezazadeh, Soheil Talebian........................
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96 |
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Porous
Silicon Hydrogen Sensor at Room Temperature: the Effect of Surface Modification
and Noble Metal Contacts
Jayita Kanungo, Hiranmay Saha, Sukumar Basu...................................................................
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102 |
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Design
and Analyses of Electromagnetic Microgenerator
Nibras Awaja, Dinesh Sood, Thurai Vinay.............................................................................
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109 |
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Dynamic
Pull-in Phenomenon in the Fully Clamped Electrostatically Actuated Rectangular
Microplates Considering Damping Effects,
Ghader Rezazadeh, Soheil Talebian, Mohammad Fathalilou...................................................
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122 |
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Finite
Element Analysis of Static and Dynamic Pull-In Instability of a Fixed-Fixed
Micro Beam Considering Damping Effects
Mohammad Reza Ghazavi, Ghader Rezazadeh, Saber Azizi..................................................
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132 |
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Effect
of Polyimide Variation and its Curing Temperature on CMOS Based Capacitive
Humidity Sensor and
Characterization of Integrated Heater
B. N. Baliga, D. N. Tiwari,Kamaljeet Singh, Sanjay Verma,K. Nagachenchaiah........................
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144 |
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Sputtered
Silicon as a Potential Masking Material for Glass Micromachining – A Feasibility
Study
Abhay B. Joshi, Dhananjay Bodas, S. A. Gangal...................................................................
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155 |
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Thermo-Mechanical
Behavior of a Bilayer Microbeam Subjected to Nonlinear Electrostatic Pressure
Maliheh Pashapour, Seyed-Mehdi Pesteii, Ghader Rezazadeh, Shahriyar Kouravand................
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161 |
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Hydrogen
and Methane Response of Pd Gate MOS Sensor,
Preeti Pandey, J. K. Srivastava, V. N. Mishra and R. Dwivedi.................................................
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171 |
Vol. 104, Issue 5, May 2009
Research Articles
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Biosensors Development Based on Potential
Target of Conducting Polymers
Ravindra P. Singh and Jeong-Woo Choi................................................................................
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1 |
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Designing Binocular Stereo Omni-Directional
Vision Sensors
Yi-ping Tang, Chen-jun Pang, Yi-hua
Zhu.............................................................................. |
19 |
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A Stainless Steel Electrode Phantom to Study
the Forward Problem of Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT)
Tushar Kanti Bera and J. Nagaraju.......................................................................................
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33 |
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Single-mode D-type Optical Fiber Sensor in
Spectra Method at a Specific Incident Angle of 89°
Ming-Hung Chiu, Po-Chin Chiu, Yi-Hsien Liu, Wei-Ding Zheng................................................. |
41 |
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Effect of Low Frequency Pulsed DC on Human
Skin in Vivo: Resistance Studies in Reverse Iontophoresis
Pavan Kumar Kathuroju and Nagaraju Jampana.....................................................................
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47 |
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Low Frequency Noises of Hydrogen Sensors
Zara
Mkhitaryan, Ferdinand Gasparyan, Armine Surmalyan..................................................... |
58 |
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Fe2O3 - ZnO Based Gas
Sensors
L. A. Patil...........................................................................................................................
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68 |
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Effect of Yttria on Gas Sensitivity of
Tungsten Trioxide
M. H. Shahrokh Abadi, M. N. Hamidon, Rahman Wagiran, Abdul Halim Shaari,
Norhisam Misron, Norhafizah
Abdullah.................................................................................................
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76 |
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Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) Sensing
Properties of Nanosized Sprayed CdIn2O4 Thin Films
R. J. Deokate, R. R. Salunkhe, K. Y. Rajpure....................................................................... |
87 |
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Optimization
of a Novel Humidity Sensing Mechanism Strip Length
Souhil Kouda, Zohir Dibi, Abdelghani Dendouga, Samir Barra................................................. |
96 |
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Humidity
Sensing Studies of WO3-ZnO Nanocomposite
N. K. Pandey, Anupam Tripathi, Karunesh Tiwari...................................................................
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109 |
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Electrochemical
Reduction of Potassium Ferricyanide Mediated by Magnesium Diboride Modified
Carbon Electrode
WeeTee Tan, Farhan Yusri and Zulkarnain Zainal.................................................................. |
119 |
Vol. 105, Issue 6,
June 2009
Editorial
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Sensors Systems
Need Smart Sensors: SENSOR+TEST 2009 at a Glance
Sergey Y. Yurish.................................................................................................................
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Research Articles
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Development
of an Intelligent Capacitive Mass Sensor Based on Co-axial Cylindrical Capacitor
Amir Abu_Al_Aish, Mahfoozur Rehman, Anwar Hasni Abu Hassan and Mohd
Rizal Arshad.......
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1 |
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Accurate Measurement of ‘Q’ Factor of An
Inductive Coil Using a Modified Maxwell Wein Bridge Network
Subrata Chattopadhyay, Bijnan. R. Maity and
Sagarika Pal.....................................................
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10 |
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New Type Small-angle Sensor Based on the TIR and
SPR Theories in Heterodyne Interferomery
Shinn-Fwu Wang, Jyh-Shyan Chiu, Lung-Hsiang Lee,
Cheng-Min Lee, Rong-Moo Hong..............
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18 |
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A Real Time Embedded set up Based on Digital
Signal Controller for Detection of Bio-Signals Using Sensors
Dipali Bansal, Munna Khan, Ashok K. Salhan........................................................................
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26 |
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Development of Hardware Dual Modality
Tomography System
R. M. Zain, R. Abdul
Rahim..................................................................................................
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33 |
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Designing of Water Quality Detector Using pH
Sensor
Pavika Sharma, Prerna Garg, and P. A.
Alvi..........................................................................
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42 |
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Design and
Modeling a New Optical Modulator
Mohammad Mezaael............................................................................................................
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50 |
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Study of a Modified Design of a Potential Transformer
S. C.
Bera and D. N.
Kole....................................................................................................
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56 |
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Simulation
Study of IMC and Fuzzy Controller for HVAC System
Umamaheshwari and P. Sivashanmugam............................................................................... |
66 |
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Digital Position Control System of a Motorized Valve in a Process Plant Using
Hybrid Stepper Motor as Actuator
Subrata Chattopadhyay, Utpal Chakraborty, Arindam Bhakta and Sagarika Pal........................
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73 |
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Modeling
and Analysis of a Bimorph PZT Cantilever Beam Based Micropower Generator
Jyoti Ajitsaria, Song-Yul Choe, Phil Ozmun, Dongna Shen and Dong-Joo
Kim..........................
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81 |
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PPY-PVA
Blend Thin Films as a Ammines Gas Sensor
D. B. Dupare, M. D. Shirsat and A. S. Aswar..........................................................................
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94 |
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Sanguinarine and its Electropolymerization onto Indium Tin Oxide as a Mediator for Biosensing
Ravindra P. Singh,
Byung-Keun Oh and Jeong-Woo Choi........................................................
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104 |
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Effect of Dilution and Model Analysis of Distillery Effluent Using Dissolved
Oxygen as Parameter
J. Sumathi, S.
Sundaram..................................................................................................... |
113 |
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Growth and Characterization of Nanocrystalline ZnO Thin Films by Spray
Pyrolysis: Effect of Molarity of Precursor Solution
Dharmendra Mishra, K. C. Dubey, R. K. Shukla, Anchal Srivastava and Atul
Srivastava............
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119 |
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pH
Homeostasis of a Biosensor in Renal Function Regulation Linked with UTI
T. K. Basak, T. Ramanujam, V. Cyrilraj, G. Gunshekharan Asha Khanna, Deepali
Garg, Poonam Goyal, Arpita
Gupta................................................................................................
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127 |
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Micro-Flow
Based Differential Pressure Sensor
Microbridge
Technologies, White
Paper.................................................................................
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135 |
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Vol. 106, Issue 7,
July 2009
Research Articles
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Wireless Surface Acoustic Wave
Sensors
Kerem Durdag.....................................................................................................................
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1 |
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Reliability Modeling of Wireless
Sensor Network for Oil and Gas Pipelines Monitoring
Khalid
El-Darymli, Faisal Khan, Mohamed H.
Ahmed..............................................................
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6 |
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Level Controlled Gossip Based Tsunami
Warning Wireless Sensor Networks
Santosh Bhima, Anil Gogada and Ramamurthy Garimella.......................................................
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27 |
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A
Distributed Approach to Area Coverage for Dynamic Sensor Networks
Simone Gabriele and Paolo Di
Giamberardino........................................................................
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35 |
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An
Investigation into Clustering Routing Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks
Abdulazeez F. Salami, Farhat Anwar and Akhmad
Unggul Priantoro........................................
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48 |
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Data
Fusion Functions: Applications to Sensor Networks
Vinay Kumar Deekonda, Sankara Sastry Korada and
Ramamurthy Garimella...........................
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62 |
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High Fidelity Simulation of Network Nodes
with RF-Ranging Capabilities
Hamed Bastani and Andreas Birk.........................................................................................
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73 |
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RFID
for Location Proposes Based on the Intermodulation Distortion
Hugo Gomes, Nuno Borges Carvalho....................................................................................
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85 |
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Design and Manufacturing Precise Wireless
Car Engine's Speed Sensor
Amir Mahyar Khorasani, Mir Saeed Safizadeh........................................................................
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97 |
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Channel
Estimation of WCDMA with OFDM Signal
N. R.
Raajan, Y. Venkataramani, T. R. Sivaramakrishnan.......................................................
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107 |
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Rearranging
Structure for WCDMA over GSM
N. R. Raajan, Y.
Venkataramani, T. R. Sivaramakrishnan.......................................................
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114 |
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Simulation
Study of OFDM, COFDM and Mimo-OFDM System
Mrutyunjaya Panda and Dr. Sarat Ku. Patra...........................................................................
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123 |
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An
Efficient Method for Extraction of Transfer Function of H-Tree Clock
Distribution Networks
Fahimeh Alsadat Hosseini and Nasser Masoumi....................................................................
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134 |
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Three-dimensional
Quantitative Visualization from a Single Image
Yuichiro Oya, Kikuhito Kawasue...........................................................................................
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142 |
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Modeling
and Analysis of Micro Fluidic Channels
M. Shanmugavalli, M. Umapathy, G. Uma..............................................................................
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155 |
Vol. 107, Issue 8,
August 2009
Research Articles
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Precise Frequency and Period Measurements
for Slow Slew Rate Signals Based on the Modified Method of the Dependent Count
Sergey Y. Yurish.................................................................................................................
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1 |
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Electronic Nose Technology and its
Applications
Esmaeil
Mahmoudi..............................................................................................................
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17 |
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Electronic Nose Study of Powdered Garlic
Rosa E. Baby,
María M. Sance, Mónica Bauzá, Valeria M. Messina, Alvaro R. Gómez, José L. Burba,
Noemí E. Walsöe de Reca........................................................................................
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26 |
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Effects of Radiation on Silicon Pressure
Sensor
Jaspreet
Singh, M. M. Nayak, K. Nagachenchaiah, K. Rajanna...............................................
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35 |
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Design of a PC Based Pressure Indicator
Using Inductive Pick-up type Transducer and Bourdon Tube Sensor
S. C. Bera, N. Mandal, R. Sarkar and S. Maity.......................................................................
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42 |
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Problem of Piezoelectric Sensitivity of
1–3-type Composites
Vitaly Yu.
Topolov and Anatoly E. Panich..............................................................................
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52 |
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Development of a Surface Micromachined
On-Chip Flat Disk Micropump
M. I. Kilani, A. T. Al-Halhouli, P. C. Galambos, Y. S. Haik, A. Al-Salaymeh
and S. Üttgenbach.
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64 |
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Humidity Sensing Behavior of Polyaniline /
Strontium Arsenate Composites
Machappa T., M.
Sasikala, Koppalkar R. Anilkumar, M. V. N. Ambika
Prasad.........................
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77 |
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Oxygen Sensing Properties of the WO3
Thick Films
R. S. Khadayate,
S. K. Disawal and P. P. Patil......................................................................
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86 |
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Optimization
of Firing Temperature of PbO-doped SnO2 Sensor for Detection of Acetone,
Methanol, Propanol
J. K. Srivastava, Preeti Pandey, V. N. Mishra and R. Dwivedi.................................................. |
92 |
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Sol
gel Synthesis of Tungsten Oxide Thin Film in Presence of Surfactant for NO2
Detection
Vibha Srivastava, A. K. Srivastava, K. N. Sood, Kiran Jain.....................................................
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99 |
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Epinephrine
Biosensor Using Tyrosinase Immobilized Eggshell Membrane
Sanket Tembe, Sudha Kulkarni, Meena Karve, S. F. D’Souza................................................. |
111 |
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Finite
Element Analyses of a Flat Spring for use in an Electromagnetic Microgenerator
Nibras Awaja, Dinesh Sood, Thurai Vinay..............................................................................
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119 |
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Design
and Development of a Step Climbing Wheeled Robot
Srijan Bhattacharya, Sagarika Pal, Subrata Chattopadhyay.................................................... |
133 |
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Enhancement
of Heat Exchanger Control using Improved PID Controller
Gopalakrishna G., Sivakumaran N. and *Sivashanmugam
P................................................... |
144 |
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Speech
Disability Threshold Determination by Graphical and DSP Techniques
Anandthirtha. B. Gudi and H. C. Nagaraj................................................................................
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157 |
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Smart
Wireless Sensors Integrated in Clothing: an Electrocardiography System in a
Shirt Powered Using Human Body Heat
Vladimir Leonov, Tom Torfs, Chris Van Hoof and Ruud J. M. Vullers........................................
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Vol. 6, Special
Issues, August 2009
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Foreword
Subhas Chandra Mukhopadhyay, Gourab Sen Gupta and
Ray Yueh Min Huang.......................
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GPS Navigation Processing Using the IMM-Based Extended Kalman Filter
Dah-Jing Jwo, Chien-Hao
Tseng...........................................................................................
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A Robot with Complex Facial Expressions
J.
Takeno, K. Mori and Y.
Naito...........................................................................................
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18 |
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A Bayesian
Approach to Solving the Non – Invasive Time Domain Reflectometry Inverse
Problem
Ian G.
Platt and Ian M. Woodhead........................................................................................
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27 |
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Estimation of Back-Surface Flaw Depth by Laminated Piezoelectric
Highpolymer Film
Akinobu
Yamamoto, Shiro Biwa and Eiji
Matsumoto..............................................................
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43 |
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Studies on Gas Sensing Performance of Pure and Surface Modified SrTiO3
Thick Film Resistors
V. B. Gaikwad, D. D. Kajale, Y. R. Baste, S. D. Shinde, P. K. Khanna, N.
K. Pawar, D. N. Chavan, M. K. Deore, G. H.
Jain..........................................................................................
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57 |
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Computational Aspects of Sensor Network Protocols (Distributed Sensor
Network Simulator)
Vasanth Iyer, S. S. Iyengar, G. Rama Murthy, M. B. Srinivas..................................................
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69 |
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Sensitivity Enhancement of Wheatstone Bridge Circuit for Resistance
Measurement
Tarikul
Islam, Shakeb A. Khan, Sheikh S. Islam,
Harsh........................................................
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92 |
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Experimental Evaluation of the Applicability of Capacitive and Optical
Measurement Methods for the Determination of Liquid Hydrogen Volume Flow
Gert
Holler, Daniel Hrach, Anton
Fuchs.................................................................................
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105 |
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Effect
of Organic Vapour on Porous Alumina Based Moisture Sensor in Dry Gases
Saakshi
Dhanekar, Tarikul Islam, S.
S. Islam, Kamalendu
Sengupta, Debdulal Saha..............
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117 |
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Compensation of Imperfections for Vibratory Gyroscope Systems Using
State Observers
Chien-Yu
Chi and Tsung-Lin
Chen........................................................................................
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128 |
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Vol. 108, Issue
9, September 2009
Research Articles
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Smart
Sensor for Analyzing Train Vibration in WCR Zone
Alka
Dubey and Ashish Verma............................................................................................. |
1 |
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Design of a Low
Cost Smart Dryer Temperature Measurement System for Tea Factories
Utpal SARMA, Digbijoy CHAKRABORTY, Pradip Kr. BORUAH............................................... |
8 |
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Design of a MEMS
Capacitive Comb-drive Micro-accelerometer with Sag Optimization
B.
D. PANT, Lokesh DHAKAR, P. J. GEORGE and S.
AHMAD.............................................. |
15 |
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Dynamic Characterization of MEMS Scanners
Çağlar ATAMAN, Hüseyin R SEREN, Harald SCHENK, Hakan ÜREY...................................... |
31 |
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Electromagnetic Investigation of a CMOS MEMS Inductive Microphone
Farčs Tounsi, Brahim Mezghani, Libor Rufer, Mohamed Masmoudi and Salvador
Mir................. |
40 |
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Study of
Thermoelastic Damping in Capacitive Micro-beam Resonators Using Hyperbolic Heat
Conduction Model
Ghader Rezazadeh, Armin Saeedi vahdat, Seyed-Mehdi Pesteii,Bahman Farzi......................... |
54 |
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Development of
Planter Foot Pressure Distribution System Using Flexi Force Sensors
S. L. Patil, Madhuri A. Thatte, U. M. Chaskar........................................................................ |
73 |
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Fiber Optic
Displacement and Liquid Refractive Index Sensors with Two Asymmetrical Inclined
Fibers
H. Z. Yang, S. W. Harun
and H.
Ahmad................................................................................ |
80 |
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Controlling a pH
Process Using Feedback & Double Controller Scheme
S. Shobana, A. Srinivasan and Rames
C.
Panda................................................................... |
89 |
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Time
Domain Analysis of Ultrasonic Wave Propagation using an Electromagnetic Acoustic
Transducer
Sadiq Thomas, Salah Obayya, Domenico Pinto, D. Dulay, W. Balachandran, Mostafa
Darwish.. |
102 |
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Design
of a PC Based Mass Flow Indicator of an Electrical Motor Driven Water Lift Pump using Motor Load Current as the Flow Sensing Parameter
S. C. Bera, N. Mandal and R. Sarkar..................................................................................... |
116 |
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A
Bimorph Moment/Force Actuator for Dynamic Testing
Hou Xiaoyan....................................................................................................................... |
128 |
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Instrumentation
to Measure the Capacitance of Biosensors by Sinusoidal Wave Method
Pavan Kumar Kathuroju and Nagaraju Jampana..................................................................... |
139 |
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Humidity
and Electrical Sensing Properties of CoCr2O4–ZnO–MnO2
Composites
Regina Mary L.,
Jeyaraj B. and Nagaraja K.
S........................................................................ |
147 |
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AC
Response to Humidity and Propane of Sprayed Fe-Zn Oxide Films
Alejandro Avila-García, Manuel García-Hipólito and Yasuhiro Matsumoto-Kuwabara................... |
156 |
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Sn-doped
Zinc Oxide Thin Films for Methanol
Rajarshi Krishna Nath and Siddhartha Sankar Nath................................................................ |
168 |
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Spray
Deposited Pure and CuO Doped ZnO Thin Films for NH3 Sensing
L. A. Patil, I. G. Pathan....................................................................................................... |
180 |
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Formulation
and Characterization of Cr2O3 Doped ZnO Thick Films as H2S Gas Sensor
A. V. Patil, C. G. Dighavkar, S. K. Sonawane, S. J. Patil and R. Y. Borse...............................
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189 |
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Vol. 109, Issue
10, October 2009
Research Articles
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Aspects of Gas Sensor´s Modeling and
Implementation in a Dynamic Environment
Hakim Baha, Zohir Dibi.......................................................................................................
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1 |
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A Fuzzy-Based Tactile Sensor for
Implementation in Specialized Motion of Land Rover
Badal Chakraborty, K. Rajanna............................................................................................
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13 |
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Neuro and Fuzzy Computing Approach for the
Flow Sensorless Measurement
R. Kumar, and P. Sivashanmugam.......................................................................................
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21 |
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Fuzzy Logic Based Set-Point Weighting
Controller Tuning for an Internal Model Control Based PID Controller
Maruthai Suresh, Ranganathan Rani Hemamalini, Gunna Jeersamy Srinivasan.........................
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29 |
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Adaptive PI Controller for a Nonlinear
System
D. Rathikarani, D. Sivakumar...............................................................................................
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43 |
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Integration of Fault Detection and Isolation
with Control Using Neuro-fuzzy Scheme
A.
Asokan, D. Sivakumar....................................................................................................
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59 |
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Control Scheme of a Designed Step Climbing
Wheeled Robot
Srijan Bhattacharya, Sagarika Pal, Subrata Chattopadhyay.....................................................
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70 |
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Accurate Fluid Level Measurement in Dynamic
Environment Using Ultrasonic Sensor and ν-SVM
Jenny Terzic, Romesh Nagarajah, Muhammad Alamgir...........................................................
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76 |
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Design of a MEMS Capacitive Comb-drive
Micro-accelerometer with Sag Optimization
B. D. Pant, Lokesh Dhakar,
P. J. George and S.
Ahmad........................................................
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92 |
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Remarkable
Electromechanical Coupling in the 2–2 Composite Based on Single-domain
PMN–0.33PT Crystal
Vitaly Yu. Topolov, Sergei V. Glushanin, Christopher R. Bowen and Anatoly E.
Panich.............
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108 |
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Effect
on H2S Gas Sensing Performance of Nb2O5
Addition to TiO2 Thick Films
C. G. Dighavkar, A. V. Patil, S. J. Patil and R. Y. Borse........................................................
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117 |
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Al2O3-
BSST Based Chemical Sensors for Ammonia Gas Sensing
L. A. Patil, H. M. Baviskar...................................................................................................
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126 |
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Wireless
Telemetry 2.4 GHz for Measurement Occupational Vibration
Diogo Koenig and Alexandre Balbinot....................................................................................
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137 |
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pH
Homeostasis Linked with Capacitance Relaxation Phenomena and Electrostrictive
Energy in Cancer Cells
T. K. Basak, T. Ramanujam, J. C. Kavitha, Poonam Goyal, Deepali Garg, Arpita
Gupta, Suman Halder.....................................................................................................................
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147 |
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Vol. 7, Special Issues,
October 2009
Foreword
Elena Gaura and James Brusey...........................................................................................
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1 |
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A Novel Strain Gauge with Damping
Capability
Xiaohua Li and Cesar
Levy...................................................................................................
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5 |
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A Parallel-Plate-Based Fishbone-Shape
MEMS Tunable Capacitor with Linear Capacitance-Voltage Response
Mohammad Shavezipur, Patricia Nieva, Seyed Mohammad Hashemi and Amir
Khajepour.........
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15 |
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Micro-Fabricated
Rotational Actuators for Electrical Voltage Measurements Employing the
Principle of Electrostatic Force
Jan Dittmer, Rolf Judaschke and Stephanus Büttgenbach.....................................................
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25 |
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Nanochip: a MEMS-Based
Ultra-High Data Density Memory Device
Nickolai Belov, Donald Adams, Peter Ascanio, Tsung-Kuan
Chou, John Heck, Byong Kim, Gordon Knight,
Qing Ma, Valluri Rao, Jong-Seung Park, Robert Stark, Ghassan Tchelepi........
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34 |
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Vertically Aligned
Carbon Nanotube Array (VANTA) Biosensor for MEMS Lab-on-A-Chip
Luke Joseph, Thomas Hasling and David Garmire................................................................
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47 |
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Development and Test of a
Contactless Position and Angular Sensor Device for the Application in Synchronous Micro Motors
Andreas Waldschik,
Marco Feldmann and Stephanus Büttgenbach........................................
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56 |
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A Robust Miniature Silicon
Microphone Diaphragm
Weili Cui, Ronald N. Miles and Quang Su..............................................................................
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63 |
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Analysis of an Electrostatic MEMS
Squeeze-Film Drop Ejector
Edward P. Furlani................................................................................................................
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78 |
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Application of Nonlocal Elasticity
Shell Model for Axial Buckling of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
Farzad
Khademolhosseini, Nimal Rajapakse, Alireza Nojeh....................................................
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88 |
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An Online Tool for Simulating
Electro-Thermo-Mechanical Flexures Using Distributed and Lumped Analyses
Fengyuan Li and Jason Vaughn Clark...................................................................................
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101 |
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Monte Carlo Simulation Studies for
the Templated Synthesis of Ni Nanowires in Zeolites
Javier
A. Huertas-Miranda, María M. Martínez-Ińesta..............................................................
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116 |
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A Multiscale Model of Cantilever
Arrays and its Updating
Michel Lenczner, Emmanuel Pillet, Scott Cogan and Hui Hui..................................................
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125 |
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Simulation of Droplet Dynamics and
Mixing in Microfluidic Devices using a VOF-Based Method
Anurag Chandorkar, Shayan Palit.........................................................................................
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136 |
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Comparison of Transmission Line Methods for Surface Acoustic Wave
Modeling
William Wilson, Gary
Atkinson.............................................................................................
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150 |
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Micro Tools with Pneumatic
Actuators for Desktop Factories
Björn Hoxhold and Stephanus Büttgenbach...........................................................................
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160 |
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Hearing Aid Sensitivity
Optimization on Dual MEMS Microphones Using Nano-Electrodeposits
Sang-Soo Je, Jeonghwan KIM, Michael N. Kozicki, and Junseok Chae...................................
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170 |
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A Novel Virtual Button User
Interface for Determining the Characteristics of an Impulse Input Based on MEMS Inertial Sensors
A. J.
Zwart, G. M. Derige, D. Effa, P. Nieva, S. Lancaster-Larocque........................................
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179 |
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Magnetic Bead and Fluorescent
Silica Nanoparticles Based Optical Immunodetection
of Staphylococcal Enterotoxin B
(SEB) in Bottled Water
Shiva K. Rastogi, Veronica J. Hendricks, Josh R. Branen and A. Larry
Branen........................
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191 |
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Wireless Sensor Networks for Space
Applications: Network Architecture and Protocol Enhancements
Driss Benhaddou, Manikanden Balakrishnan, Xiaojing Yuan, Ji Chen, Mukesh
Rungta, Rick Barton, Heng
Yang..............................................................................................................
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203 |
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Classifying Transition Behaviour
in Postural Activity Monitoring
James Brusey, Ramona Rednic and Elena Gaura..................................................................
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213 |
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Vol. 110, Issue
11, November 2009
Editorial
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Sensors Based
on Nanostructured Materials: Book Review
Sergey Y. YURISH.............................................................................................................. |
I |
Research Articles
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Hydrogen Sensor
Based on Carbon Nano-tube Fortified by Palladium
A. Kazemzadeh, A. F. Hessari, M. Kashani, H. Azizi and N. Jafari.........................................
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1 |
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Glucose Binding Protein as a Novel Optical Glucose
Nanobiosensor
Majed DWEIK....................................................................................................................
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9 |
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Nanostructured ZrO2
Thick Film Resistors as H2-Gas Sensors Operable at Room Temperature
K.
M. Garadkar, B. S. Shirke, Y. B. Patil and D. R. Patil.......................................................
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17 |
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Pull-in Phenomena
and Dynamic Response of a Capacitive Nano-beam Switch
Farid Vakili-Tahami, Hamed Mobki, Ali-asghar keyvani-janbahan, Ghader Rezazadeh..............
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26 |
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Palladium Surface
Modification of Nanocrystalline Sol-Gel derived Zinc Oxide Thin Films and its
Effect on Methane Sensing
P. Bhattacharyya, S.
Maji, S. Biswas, A. Sengupta, T. Maji, H. Saha......................................
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38 |
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Gas Sensing
Properties of Indium Tin Oxide Nanofibers
Shiyou Xu, Yong
Shi...........................................................................................................
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47 |
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Design, Modeling
and Optimization of a Piezoelectric Pressure Sensor based on a Thin-Film PZT
Membrane Containing Nanocrystalline Powders
Vahid Mohammadi, Mohammad Hossein Sheikhi...................................................................
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56 |
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Synthesis and Properties of Thin Film Nanocomposites Sn-Y-O for Gas Sensors
Stanislav Rembeza, Ekaterina Rembeza, Elena Russkih, Natalia Kosheleva..........................
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71 |
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Electroanalytical
Nanoparticles Electrode based on NanoTiO2/MWCNTs Mixture
Ganchimeg Perenlei,
Wee Tee
Tan......................................................................................
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78 |
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Structural
Properties of Nanosized NiFe2O4 for LPG Sensor
N. N. Gedam, A. V. Kadu, P. R. Padole, A. B. Bodade and G. N. Chaudhari...........................
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86 |
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Low-Cost
Wireless Nanotube Composite Sensor for Damage Detection of Civil Infrastructure
Mohamed Saafi, Lanouar Kaabi...........................................................................................
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96 |
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Cross
Linking Polymers (PVA & PEG) with TiO2 Nanoparticles for Humidity
Sensing
Monika Joshi
and R. P.
Singh..............................................................................................
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105 |
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Resolution
Enhancement of Thermal and Optical Nanolithography Using an Organic Dry
Developing Resist and an Optimized Tip
Salman Noach, Michael Manevich, Naftali P. Eisenberg and Eli Flaxer....................................
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112 |
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Wireless
Sensor Network: Modeling and Analysis of MEMS based Nano-Nodes
Rohit Pathak, Satyadhar
Joshi.............................................................................................
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120 |
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Respiration
and Heartbeat Measurement for Sleep Monitoring using a Flexible AlN
Piezoelectric Film Sensor
Nan Bu, Naohiro Ueno and Osamu Fukuda...........................................................................
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131 |
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Design
Optimization of Cantilever based MEMS Micro-accelerometer for High-g
Applications
B.D. Pant, Shelley Goel,
P. J. George and S.
Ahmad............................................................
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143 |
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Vol. 111, Issue
12, December 2009
Research Articles
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Effect of Uncertainty in the
Reliability of the COTS based Hardware System and its Sensitivity Analysis
Y. B.
Acharya and Vivek
Goswami.......................................................................................
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1 |
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cLite – A Capacitive Signal Conditioning IC
Krauss
Gudrun....................................................................................................................
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10 |
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Fabrication Challenges for Realization of
Wet Etching Based Comb Type Capacitive Microaccelerometer Structure
Shankar Dutta, R. Pal, P. Kumar, O. P. Hooda, J. Singh, Shaveta, G. Saxena, P.
Datta and R.
Chatterjee...........................................................................................................................
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18 |
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Stray Capacitances of an Air-Cored Eddy
Current Sensor
Yi Jia,
Henning Heuer, Susanne Hillmann, Norbert Meyendorf.................................................
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25 |
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Design and Simulation of MOEMS Thermal
Sensor Based on a Bimetallic Mechanism
Shahriar
Kouravand.............................................................................................................
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38 |
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Directivity Analysis of Piezoelectric
Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducer Array
Yunlong Geng, Limei Xu, Xuesheng Li, Leon Xu....................................................................
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45 |
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Design of RF MEMS Switch with High Stability
Effect at the Low Actuation Voltage
Bandana Mishra, Rajiv Panigrahi, Z. C.
Alex..........................................................................
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58 |
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Study of the Stability of Copper Fixed Point
in Sealed Cells for Calibration of Noble Metal Thermocouples
Yasser
A. Abdel-Aziz and Faten M. Megahed........................................................................
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65 |
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Reconfigurable Antenna for Medical
Applications
Elizabeth Rufus and Zachariah C.
Alex.................................................................................
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71 |
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Numerical
Analysis of an Oscillating Micromixer
B.
Dennai, R. Khelfaoui, B. Benyoucef, A.Slimani, A. Maazouzi and A. Missoum.....................
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79 |
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Investigation
of Wireless Sensor Deployment Schemes for In-Situ Measurement of Water Ice near
Lunar South Pole
Jayesh
P. Pabari, Y. B. Acharya and U. B.
Desai..................................................................
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86 |
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Single-mode
D-type Surface Plasmon Resonance Optical Fiber Sensor: Review
Ming-Hung Chiu...................................................................................................................
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106 |
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Multimode
D-type Optical Fiber Sensor Based on ATR Effect in Temperature Detection
Ming-Hung Chiu, Po-Chin Chiu, Liu-Yi Hsien, Wei-Ching Chuang and Fuh-Shyang
Juang...........
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125 |
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A
Comparative Assessment of Performance of Moisture Controllers for a Real Time
Industrial Paper Machine Model
K.
Ramkumar and A.
Ramakalyan........................................................................................
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132 |
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Photoresponse
of LAPS with Different Species Membranes: Modeling and Simulation
Ferdinand Gasparyan...........................................................................................................
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141 |
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Effect
of Firing Temperature on Humidity Sensing Properties of SnO2 Thick Film Resistor
R. Y.
Borse and A. S.
Garde................................................................................................
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155 |
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