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Biosensors are expected to play an expanding role in the early detection and treatment of cancer. Addressing cancer molecular diagnostics from the perspective of biosensors and biodetection, this book examines the technology and applications of a range of sensor systems, including optical, electrochemical, and optomechanical sensors. Each chapter presents a different biosensor-based technology and then explains their limitations, how the sensors are created, how they function, and how they can be applied. The text also reviews allied subjects, such as ligands, molecular markers, and microfluidics, that are essential to understanding and developing new sensing technologies.

Explaining the chromatic methodology for the intelligent monitoring of complex systems, Chromatic Monitoring of Complex Conditions demonstrates that chromatic processing is analogous to human vision yet also extends into a wide range of nonoptical domains. Taking a practical approach that utilizes many examples and graphs, the book presents the origin and methodology of chromaticity, before delving into the various applications of chromatic methods. It first describes characteristics of chromatic systems and chromatic processing algorithms, such as H, S, V transformation and basic x, y, z algorithms. The book then discusses the areas in which chromatic monitoring can be deployed, including electrical plasmas, industrial liquids, broadband interferometry and polarimetry, biological tissues and fluids, the environment, and acoustical and vibration signals. With contributions from international authorities in the field, this volume shows how chromatic analysis is useful for investigating diverse complex systems and for processing large amounts of information about system behavior, from direct physical parameters to holistic system overviews. By covering the broad capabilities of the methodology, it provides the basis for adapting chromatic techniques in future work.

Metal Oxide Nanostructures as Gas Sensing Devices explores the development of an integrated micro gas sensor that is based on advanced metal oxide nanostructures and is compatible with modern semiconductor fabrication technology. This sensor can then be used to create a compact, low-power, handheld device for analyzing air ambience.The book first covers current gas sensing tools and discusses the necessity for miniaturized sensors. It then focuses on the materials, devices, and techniques used for gas sensing applications, such as resistance and capacitance variations. The author addresses the issues of sensitivity, concentration, and temperature dependency as well as the response and recovery times crucial for sensors. He also presents techniques for synthesizing different metal oxides, particularly those with nanodimensional structures. The text goes on to highlight the gas sensing properties of many nanostructured metal oxides, from aluminum and cerium to iron and titanium to zinc and zirconium. The final chapters deal with existing and future devices that are based on nanostructures.Miniaturized systems that analyze air ambience need sensors capable of identifying different gaseous species. Exploring state-of-the-art gas sensing devices, this book shows how nanostructured metal oxides are ideally suited for use as gas sensing elements.

Nanosized sensors enable the study of chemical and biochemical processes at a level and in dimensions that may not have been envisioned some 20 years ago. Fueled by their inherent small size and the unusual optical, magnetic, catalytic, and mechanical properties of nanoparticles, remarkable progress has been made in recent years in the development and utilization of nanosensors and optical nanotechnology will further widen the field. However, the design of new sensors requires new materials, new methods for their characterization, new optical sensing schemes, new approaches for creating nanosized structures, and new techniques for their interrogation in complex environments such as small living cells for studying biological signals or big public spaces for environmental monitoring . Optochemical Nanosensors covers the rapidly growing field of optical chemical nanosensing, a new and exciting area of research and development within the large field of optical chemical sensing and biosensing. Its many applications, including the detection of bioterrorist threats, food security, virology, explosive detection and more, are covered in these self-contained yet interrelated chapters. The book reviews optochemical sensors, starting from the basics in optoelectronicsand concluding with the presentation of diverse nanosensors. The authors offer insight into future trends in this growing field and present applications in the fields of medicine, security, and bioterrorism.

Written by the leading names in this field, this book covers the technical properties, fabrication details, measurement results and applications of three-dimensional silicon radiation sensors. It explains the essential features of silicon particle detectors, interactions of radiation with matter, radiation damage effects, and micro-fabrication.

This book provides a modern and much-needed overview of electrical impedance measurement science and its application in metrology, sensor reading, device, and material characterizations. It presents up-to-date coverage of the theory, practical methods, and modeling. The author covers the main impedance measurement techniques, stressing their practical application. The book includes a large set of measurement setup schematics, and diagrams and photos of standards and devices. It also offers an extensive list of references to both historical and recent papers on devices, methods, and traceability issues.

Bridging the gap between research and clinical application, this volume explores the use of biosensors as effective alternatives to the current standard methods in cancer diagnosis and detection. It describes the major aspects involved in detecting and diagnosing cancer as well as the basic elements of biosensors and their applications in detection and diagnostics. Making biosensor technology more accessible to molecular biologists, oncologists, pathologists, and engineers, the book advances the integration of this technology into mainstream clinical practice.

Suitable for both technical and non-technical personnel, this book provides practical, expert-driven information on modern sensors for hydrogen and other gases as well as physical parameters essential for safety and process control in hydrogen technologies. It illustrates how sensing technologies can ensure the safe and efficient implementation of the emerging global hydrogen market. The authors also offer guidance on the development of new sensors based on the analysis of the capabilities and limitations of existing sensors with respect to current performance requirements.

Presents an approach to sensors and sensing technologies. This title discusses the modern sensor technologies and examines their applications in various industries. It covers electronic circuitry, signal analysis, and material and manufacturing methods. It also includes problems, worked examples, exercises, and solutions.

Offers an introduction to modern sensor types and sensor signal processing methods, with emphasis placed on the underlying physics and the generic operating principles involved. This work includes a chapter dealing with flow measurement, an area that has benefited greatly from the developments in novel sensing devices and techniques.

This book provides a modern and much-needed overview of electrical impedance measurement science and its application in metrology, sensor reading, device, and material characterizations. It presents up-to-date coverage of the theory, practical methods, and modeling. The author covers the main impedance measurement techniques, stressing their practical application. The book includes a large set of measurement setup schematics, and diagrams and photos of standards and devices. It also offers an extensive list of references to both historical and recent papers on devices, methods, and traceability issues.

Structural health monitoring (SHM) uses one or more in situ sensing systems placed in or around a structure, providing real-time evaluation of its performance and ultimately preventing structural failure. This text begins with a review of the various types of sensors used in SHM, including point sensors and noncontact systems.

Discusses novel research in the areas of sensors and transducers and provides insight into topical applications of this technology. This work covers the underlying physics, fabrication technologies, and commercial applications of sensors. It discusses topics including optical sensing, sensing materials, imaging sensors and system networks.

Covers the theory and applications of one class of biosensor-microelectrochemical devices. This book explains microelectronic techniques used to produce these cheap, fast reacting, and disposable sensors with the aid of diagrams and tables. It is suitable for those active in the field of chemical sensors, analytical chemistry, or microelectronics.

Written by international scientists, engineers, technologists, clinicians, investigators, and instrument manufacturers, this title reflects the state of progress toward the development and application of electronic instruments called electronic noses (e-noses).

Presents a comprehensive review of thin film magnetoresistive (MR) sensors, including the theory of MR effects as well as the design, fabrication, properties, and applications of MR sensors. This book reviews the theory, development, and use of these sensors. It provides information about the performance of various kinds of sensors.

This book covers avionic sensor systems for researchers in industry and academia. It will be a key reference for industrial and academic researchers involved with aeronautical sensor systems and working in R&D in avionics, avionic sensors and systems, aerospace, and mechanical engineering, and more. In summary this book would serve as a key and unique reference for engineers in the aircraft industry, as well as engineers in defense and military industries and it will make a key reference in our Sensor series.

Successful and cost-effective design of an ultrasonic sensor can be problematic. As technological requirements have advanced, sensor complexity has increased dramatically, making intuitive design very difficult. Consequently, new improved models, capable of predicting the device characteristics, are vital for designing complex ultrasonic sensors/systems and keeping pace with the increasingly stringent technological requirements of the future. This book explains how to use a signal processing approach to build effective analytical methods that enable modeling of ultrasonic transduction systems.

The book provides a major source of information about the novel approach of chromaticity with examples of how chromaticity may be deployed for various monitoring applications.

Building a foundation in the necessary background concepts and fundamentals needed to develop and use electrical instruments, the author introduces classical methods before delving into such topics as data acquisition, signal conditioning, applications of computers and digital signal processors in measurement, and virtual measurement techniques.

Presents an introduction to the classification of sensors and the various properties of materials used in sensing. This work deals with specific areas of sensor materials, including metal, semiconductor, dielectric, solid electrolytic, magnetic, fiber optics, radiant, and biological materials.

Taking a practical approach that utilizes various examples and graphs, this volume shows how chromatic analysis is useful for investigating diverse complex systems and for processing large amounts of information about system behavior, from direct physical parameters to holistic system overviews.