Data Acquisition --
Sensor Characteristics --
Physical Principles of Sensing --
Optical Components of Sensors --
Interface Electronic Circuits --
Occupancy and Motion Detectors --
Position, Displacement, and Level --
Velocity and Acceleration --
Force, Strain, and Tactile Sensors --
Pressure Sensors --
Flow Sensors --
Acoustic Sensors --
Humidity and Moisture Sensors --
Light Detectors --
Radiation Detectors --
Temperature Sensors --
Chemical Sensors --
Sensor Materials and Technologies.

This book is about devices commonly called sensors. Digital systems, however complex and intelligent they might be, must receive information from the outside world that is generally analog and not electrical. Sensors are interface devices between various physical values and the electronic circuits who 'understand' only a language of moving electrical charges. In other words, sensors are the eyes, ears, and noses of silicon chips. Unlike other books on sensors, this book is organized according to the measured variables (temperature, pressure, position, etc.) that make it much more practical and easier to read. In this new edition recent ideas and developments have been added while less important and non-essential designs were dropped. Sections on practical designs and use of the modern micro-machining technologies have been revised substantially. This book is a reference text that can be used by students, researchers interested in modern instrumentation (applied physicists and engineers), sensor designers, application engineers and technicians whose job it is to understand, select and/or design sensors for practical systems