Researchers in electronics explore high-performance materials and emerging devices for implementing high-speed electronic systems. Their topics include a zagging and weaving model for dislocation interactions in heterostructures containing strain reversals, singe-chemical sensor for detecting and measuring a multi-analyte mixture, three-dimensional confined spatial wavefunction switched field effect transistors combining a quantum well and quantum dot superlattice, AMARANTHINE: humanoid robot kinematics, and modeling quantum dot channel silicon field effect transistors at sub-Kelvin for multi-state logic. Annotation ©2022 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
This introductory compendium teaches engineering students how the most common electronic sensors and actuators work. It distinguishes from other books by including the physical and chemical phenomena used as well as the features and specifications of many sensors and actuators. The useful reference text also contains an introductory chapter that deals with their specifications and classification, a chapter about sensor and actuator networks, and a special topic dealing with the fabrication of sensors and actuators using microelectromechanical systems techniques (sensors and actuators on a chip). A set of exercises and six laboratory projects are highlighted.