Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #984761 in Books
• Published on: 2000-11-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 608 pages

Customer Reviews

A second edition - comfortably fulfilled intention
The book reviewed here is a revised and updated second edition of the book 'Sensors and Signal Conditioning' written by Ramon Pallas-Areny and John G. Webster. As a second edition, the intention of is comfortably fulfilled. The last decade has seen enormous strides in micromachining and microfabrication technology. Coupled with the increasing interest in biosensors, fiber-optic and smart sensors, it is not surprising that this book is heavily biased toward microsensors, digital and intelligent sensors.

Each book's chapter devoted to different sensors discusses the physical fundamentals, sensing principles, advantages and disadvantages, equivalent circuit, signal conditioning and practical applications. All chapters are supplemented by numerous examples and tasks from actual design cases. It also provides design hints for connecting sensors to electronic devices, such as amplifier noise matching, counters, microcontrollers, signal converters, ADC, etc. Furthermore, each chapter can be read individually without losing its scope.

The authors have focused on sensors that are developed or under prototyping by commercial or public institutions. The book's objectives are also to get an insight into sensor design properties for a specific application and to understand the limitations and/or suitability of a specific sensor. Each chapter is therefore accompanied by an extensive list of scientific and technical material that provides a good reference for those interested in further reading.

This comprehensive book will be useful to undergraduate and Ph.D.students, scientists and engineers working in research, and to some extent, those involved with sensor-based measuring systems development. It should have particular appeal to those working in interdisciplinary fields where physics and engineering overlap, which is of course what sensors are all about. Overall, I recommend this book also to professional lectures who are teaching students in sensor instrumentation and related areas.

Ramon Pallas-Areny and John G. Webster have produced a book that moving from theory to hands-on, practical advice.

Prof., Dr., Nikolay V. Kirianaki,
IFSA President