Course No：1121127
Title：Modern Sensors
Class Hours/Week: 3-1 Credit: 2 Category: Specialty
Prerequisites：physics or optical physics
Test and Grading Criteria：
close-book exam (60%)+usually works(40%)
Course objectives and basic requirements:
This course is designed for the graduate students to understand working principles, concepts of modern sensors, and to be informed of state-of-art progress in the field. It is required that students become familiar with existing designs of traditional sensors and be able to make objective decisions regarding selection and applications of modern sensors based on overall characteristic and performances under specific environment.
The students are required to:
1.understand fundamental working principles, structure and characteristics;
2.analyze practical applications based on the concepts learned;
3.be active in case study and discussion in classroom;
4.grasp new ideas involved in modern sensor designs and be creative in come up with own structures.
The students are required to:
1.understand fundamental working principles, structure and characteristics;
2.analyze practical applications based on the concepts learned;
3.be active in case study and discussion in classroom;
4.grasp new ideas involved in modern sensor designs and be creative in come up with own structures.
Course introduction:
This course provides an overall introduction to the recent development of modern sensors, focusing on how physical quantities are transformed into electrical signals, or digitized, and become directly measurable quantities. The content of course covers state-of-art designs, fabrications, and associated applications, covering resistive, eletromagnetic, optical, MEMS, MOEMS, and micro-optics structures employed in modern sensors. Emphasis is placed on the novel ideas involved in latest designs which measure the physical quantities otherwise immeasurable. 1: Human/Animal Sensors
2: Sensor Performance Characteristics
3: Strain Gauges
4: Capacitive Sensors and Accelerometer Fundamentals
5: Micromachine Accelerometer
6: Piezoelectric Sensors
7: Pressure Sensors
8: Thermometers
9: Flow Sensors
10: Radiation Sensors
11: IR Sensors Demo: IR Motion
12. Active Sound measurement techniques and examples
13: Micromachine Sensor Design and Fabrication
14: Chemical Sensors
15: Gyroscopes
2: Sensor Performance Characteristics
3: Strain Gauges
4: Capacitive Sensors and Accelerometer Fundamentals
5: Micromachine Accelerometer
6: Piezoelectric Sensors
7: Pressure Sensors
8: Thermometers
9: Flow Sensors
10: Radiation Sensors
11: IR Sensors Demo: IR Motion
12. Active Sound measurement techniques and examples
13: Micromachine Sensor Design and Fabrication
14: Chemical Sensors
15: Gyroscopes
Suggested textbooks or references:
Textbooks:
Handout.
Textbooks:
Handout.
References:
1.AIP Handbook of Modern Sensors (J. Fraden)