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Sensors: A Comprehensive Survey
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The book surveys sensor science, noting that rapid advances in solid‑state physics, transducer technologies, materials research, and quantum effects shape the field and that its two‑part structure outlines current state‑of‑the‑art and emerging trends important to researchers and industry. The first part focuses on micro‑ and nanotechnological sensor aspects, exploring materials and future trends in the field. The authors describe the progression from non‑IC and IC technologies through acoustic‑wave, high‑temperature, integrated optical, and optical microsensors to molecular sensors and nanotechnology. The book summarizes the trend, highlighting that microsensors and nanosensors play a growing but still minor role in medicine, pharmacy, and automotive applications, and offers a concise overview of the emerging sensor field.
This book can be divided into two parts. The first, consisting of sensor-relevant micro and nanotechnological aspects, deals with materials in nanotechnology and discusses future tendencies in this field. The development in this sensor field is highly influenced by the rapid progress in solid-state physics, new transducer technologies, materials research and the technological application of quantum effects. The book gives an account of this trend. It begins with non-IC and IC technologies, proceeds with acoustic-wave devices, high-temperature microsensors, integrated optical sensors and optical microsensors and ends with molecular sensors and nanotechnology. These selected aspects of sensor science describe the state of the art and, in part, the future trends in this field. Without doubt microsensors or nanosensors play, and will continue to play, an important role in many areas, e.g. in medicine, microreactors used in pharmacy and automotive applications, but as yet they represent only a relatively small part of the whole sensor family. Nevertheless the information on new technologies, new materials and new sensors is important for every researcher, engineer in industry and sensor user. The value of the first part of this book lies in the concentrated summary of this new sensor field.