Micro- and Nano-Scale Sensors and Transducers

Summarizing the state of the art in sensor and transducer technology, this book will help readers make more informed selections of sensors or transducers for particular applications. The book describes the differences between new sensor and transducer technologies that are based on nanotechnology and nanofabrication and the older or "classical" sensor technologies. It presents the new structures of pressure sensors being used in such applications as mechanical pressure sensing, gas pressure sensing, and atmospheric pressure sensing. Each chapter in the book includes a set of short questions with answers.