Publisher's Synopsis
An updated overview of both research and developments in physical, chemical and biological sensors is presented in this volume. The particular application areas are very broad, involving, for instance, the automative industry, industrial processes, biology, medicine, pattern recognition and artificial vision, as well as contamination analyses of the environment, labour safety, etc. Increasing and widespread effort is currently being made concerning interactive studies of physical, chemical and biological quantities, basic transducer devices and the environment. Considerable progress has been achieved in microelectronic technologies both at the design and fabrication level, together with the possibility of transferring these developments into classes of integrated devices with sensing capacity and intelligence. Advanced research in sensors is paving the way forward in new materials, e.g. new ultrathin-film technologies, biomembranes, highly selective and stable biosensors, advanced micromachining techniques, new sensing principles for improving today's existing sensitivity problems, and silicon integration.
