A novel resonant pressure sensor with an improved micromechanical double-ended tuning fork resonator packaged in dry air at atmospheric pressure is presented. The resonator is electrostatically driven and capacitively detected, and the sensor is designed to realize a low cost resonant pressure sensor with medium accuracy. Various damping mechanisms in a resonator that is vibrating at atmospheri...

This paper presents a framework for the optimal design of experiments for medical sensors calibration. A new software program, G-optimal, is developed to demonstrate the optimal design of experiment. This program has been used to find G-optimal design for amperometric enzyme glucose sensor, silicon capacitive absolute pressure sensors and electrochemical oxygen and carbon dioxide partial pressu...

A simple differential capacitive sensor is provided in this paper to measure the absolute positions of length measuring systems. By utilizing a shield window inside the differential capacitor, the measurement range and linearity range of the sensor can reach several millimeters. What is more interesting is that this differential capacitive sensor is only sensitive to one translational degree of...

Differing from the structure of traditional parallel plate capacitive sensor a semi cylindrical capacitive sensor has been introduced in this present work to measure the soil moisture conveniently. Here, the numerical analysis method to evaluate the capacitance from the semi-cylindrical capacitive sensor is analyzed and discussed. The changes of capacitance with the variation of soil moisture o...

Continuous beat-to-beat blood pressure (BP) monitoring provides hemodynamic information such as BP changes and waveforms over time, providing abundant to more accurately diagnose a person's cardiovascular health compared static cuff-based measurements. To overcome the shortcomings of current techniques, highly sensitive (S = 108.52 kPa?1 for 0–5 kPa range) soft capacitive sensor that can be wor...