1 Introduction to Sensors and General Applications |
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1.2.1 Power Supply Requirement |
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1.2.2 Types of Output Signal |
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1.4.2 Environmental Monitoring |
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1.5 Emerging Sensors and Sensor Technologies |
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1.5.1 Electrochemical Sensors |
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1.5.2 Electromechanical Sensors |
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2 Devices for Low Power Electronics |
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2.1.1 Constant Field Scaling |
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2.1.2 Constant Voltage Scaling |
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2.2 Silicon-on-Insulator CMOS |
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2.4 High-k Dielectric and Metal Gate Technology |
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3 Low-Power Circuit Design |
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3.1 Analog. Circuit Design Principles |
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3.1.1 Requirements of the System |
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3.1.4 Choice of the Information-Carrying Signal |
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3.2 Challenges of Low-Voltage Analog Circuit Design |
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3.3 Low-Power Circuit Techniques |
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3.3.1 Subthreshold Operation |
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3.3.2 Supply Voltage Reduction |
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3.3.3 Bulk-Driven MOSFETs |
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3.3.4 Floating-Gate MOSFET |
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3.3.5 Self-Cascade Structure |
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4 Wireless Telemetry and Low-Power Sensor Applications |
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4.3 Wireless Communication |
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4.3.1 Radio Wave Propagation in Free Space |
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4.3.2 Loss Mechanisms in Radio Wave Propagation |
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4.4 Wireless Technologies |
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4.4.1 Single-Carrier Narrowband Communication |
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4.4.2 Spread Spectrum Communication |
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4.5.1 Amplitude-Shift Keying |
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4.5.2 Frequency-Shift Keying |
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4.6 Low-Power Transmitter in Integrated Sensor System |
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4.6.1 Conventional or Direct Conversion Transmitter |
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4.6.2 Direct Modulation Transmitter |
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4.6.3 Injection-Locked Transmitter |
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4.6.4 Active Antenna Transmitter |
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5 Sensors Prototypes and Applications |
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5.2 Environmental Monitoring |
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5.2.1 Electrochemical Sensors |
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5.2.2 Biophotonic Biosensors |
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5.2.3 Bioluminescent Bioreporter Integrated Circuits |
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5.2.4 Environmental Sensing Using BBIC Platform |
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5.3 Applications of Sensors Array for Environmental Monitoring |
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5.3.1 Single Substance Detection |
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5.3.3 Continuous Monitoring of the Environment |
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5.3.4 Air Quality Monitoring |
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5.3.5 Water Quality Monitoring |
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5.4 Security Applications |
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5.5 Healthcare Applications |
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5.5.1 Sensor Networks for Medical Applications |
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6 Development of Sensor Prototypes and Associated Electronics |
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6.4 Low-Dropout Voltage Regulator |
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6.6 Temperature Compensation |
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6.7 ASIC design Board-Level Implementation, and Monolithic Integration |
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6.7.2 System Architecture |
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6.7.4 Conclusion and Future Works |
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7 Conclusions |
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Index |
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