Citation
(1999), "Transducers and Their Elements", Sensor Review, Vol. 19 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/sr.1999.08719aae.001
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 1999, MCB UP Limited
Transducers and Their Elements
Transducers and Their Elements
A.D. KhazanPrentice-Hall1994572 pp.ISBN 0-13-929480-5£63.50
This book is primarily aimed at graduate level students, and its simple layout makes it suitable for reading for advanced undergraduates and practising engineers or scientists in a wide range of subject areas. Fields of interest include electrical and mechanical engineering, industrial technology, physics and chemistry.
Starting with the common factors found in all transducers, the book later builds upon these basic ideas and principles. The core of the text includes a number of sections on sensing and transduction elements, covering the most widely used devices found in a range of instruments. Topics covered are contact, resistive and electrode elements, capacitive and inductive elements, transformer, electrodynamics, servo and resonant elements, mechanical, acoustical and flowmetering elements, and heat exchange elements.
The properties and characteristics of semiconductors, a variety of solid-state sensors are discussed in Chapters 7 to 11, with an entire chapter being dedicated to the fabrication of microsensors. Other topics covered include micromechanical sensing, actuating structures, temperature and light sensitive microstructures and fibre-optic sensors. In particular the text focuses on surface acoustical wave (SAW), resonant and pressure microsensors, microaccelerometers, microactuators, micromotors, solid state temperature sensors and photodetectors. Chapter 11, the concluding chapter, covers miscellaneous miniature sensors, such as magnetic and solid-state chemical sensors, which cannot be easily placed into the above categories. A table of transducer schemes and information about tensors are given in the two appendices.
A well written book, with the hand drawn diagrams and graphs giving it a readable and unique character. This book not only addresses traditional and modern devices but, with practical formulas and calculations and an emphasis on principles and applications, is also a useful handbook.