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Microactuators

Electrical, Magnetic, Thermal, Optical, Mechanical, Chemical & Smart Structures

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  1. Massood Tabib-Azar

    1. Case Western Reserve University, USA

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Part of the book series: Electronic Materials: Science & Technology (EMST, volume 4)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Actuator Performance and Preliminaries

    • Massood Tabib-Azar
    Pages 1-36

  3. Electrical Microactuators

    • Massood Tabib-Azar
    Pages 37-94

  4. Magnetic Microactuators

    • Massood Tabib-Azar
    Pages 95-126

  5. Thermal and Phase-Transformation Microactuators

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    Pages 127-149

  6. Optical Microactuators

    • Massood Tabib-Azar
    Pages 151-178

  8. Chemical and Biological Microactuators

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    Pages 197-218

  9. Smart Structures

    • Massood Tabib-Azar
    Pages 219-278

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 279-287
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219 8. 2 Sensors 221 8. 3 Physical Sensors 222 8. 3. 1 Electrical Sensing Means 223 8. 3. 2 Magnetic Field Methods 231 8. 3. 3 Optical Methods 232 8. 4 Chemical Sensors 241 8. 4. 1 Electrical Gas and Chemical Sensors 243 8. 4. 2 Guided-Optics Intrinsic Chemical Sensors 246 8. 4. 3 Extrinsic Chemical Sensors 250 8. 4. 4 Polymer Waveguide Chemical Sensors 251 8. 4. 5 Surface Plasmon Chemical Sensors 252 8. 4. 6 Indicator-Mediated Extrinsic Sensing 253 8. 4. 7 Optical Biosensors 256 8. 4. 8 Ultrasonic Gas and Chemical Sensors 257 8. 4. 9 Intelligent Sensors 258 8. 5 Connections/Links and Wiring 258 8. 5. 1 Optical Links 260 8. 5. 2 Requirement on the Processing Unit/Intelligence 262 8. 6 Actuators 263 8. 7 Signal Processing/Computing 264 8. 7. 1 Implicit Computation 266 8. 7. 2 Explicit Computation 267 8. 8 References 274 Subject Index 279 Micro-Actuators (Electrical, Magnetic, Thermal, Optical, Mechanical, and Chemical) It has become quite apparent that sensors and actuators are the main bottleneck of the modem information processing and control systems. Microprocessors and computers used to be the main limiting element in most information processing systems. But thanks to the enonnous progress in the microelectronics industry, most information analysis tasks can be processed in real time. The data has to be acquired by the processor in some form and processed and used to produce some useful function in the real world.
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Case Western Reserve University, USA

    Massood Tabib-Azar

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Microactuators

  • Book Subtitle: Electrical, Magnetic, Thermal, Optical, Mechanical, Chemical & Smart Structures

  • Authors: Massood Tabib-Azar

  • Series Title: Electronic Materials: Science & Technology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5445-5

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1998

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-8089-4Published: 31 December 1997

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-7486-2Published: 23 February 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-5445-5Published: 27 November 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1386-3290

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 287

  • Number of Illustrations: 41 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Electrical Engineering, Characterization and Evaluation of Materials, Mechanical Engineering

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