Relative humidity sensors are common components in building heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems, and their performance can significantly impact energy use in these systems. A study was undertaken to test and evaluate the most commonly used relative humidity sensors in building HVAC systems, namely the capacitive and resistive types. Sensor models from six different manufac...

Although sensors used in the majority of high-performance seismometers are capacitive, the performance of present commercial instruments is less than what it could be--due to the choice of less-than-optimal electrode configurations. The detector in commercial instruments has only one-half the symmetry of the patented symmetric differential capacitive (SDC) transducer, also known as 'fully diffe...

Flexible capacitive pressure sensors fabricated with nanocomposites were experimentally characterized and results compared with simulations from analytical modeling. Unlike traditional diaphragm silicon pressure sensors, the flexible nanocomposite sensors present a linear response over a large pressure range due to the changes in the volume of the dielectric that cause the pressure inside the d...

A pressure sensor demonstrator has been designed and mounted using a simple analog-digital BiCMOS converter and a capacitive Silicon–Pyrex sensing cell. The measurements as a function of pressure and temperature have enabled to evaluate the efficiency of a ratiometric scheme to self-compensate thermal drifts and nonlinearities. The best demonstrator is characterized by a thermal coefficient of ...

This paper proposes 128x8 array swipe type fingerprint sensor with a capacitive-sensing technique for image enhancement. The circuit of one pixel includes a pixel level chargesharing and charge pump to replace an ADC. The circuit also adopts the circuit technique that improves quality of dry finger image captured with capacitive fingerprint sensor LSIs. The proper operation is validated by HSPI...