Global Perspectives on Structural Health Monitoring of Civil Structures -- Are Civil Structural Engineers “Risk Averse”? Can Civionics Help? -- Monitoring Technologies for Maintenance and Management of Urban Highways in Japan -- The Role of Sensing and Measurement in Achieving FHWA’S Strategic Vision for Highway Infrastructure -- Recent Development of Bridge Health Monitoring System in Ko…
Technology and Economics -- High Temperature Electronics - Cluster Effects -- On the Evolution of SOI Materials and Devices -- SOI Technology as a Basis for Microphotonic-Microelectronic Integrated Devices -- SOI Material Technologies -- Smart Cut Technology: The Path for Advanced SOI Substrates -- Porous Silicon Based SOI: History and Prospects -- Achievement of SiGe-on-Insulator Technology --…
Sensor Node Deployment -- Energy-Aware Target Localization -- Energy-Efficient Self-Organization -- Energy-Aware Information Dissemination -- Optimal Energy Equivalence Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks -- Time Synchronization In Wireless Sensor Networks -- Conclusions.Wireless sensor networks is a rapidly developing area. New applications are emerging and breakthroughs are being made in solv…
Fundamentals of System Design -- Radio Architectures and Design Considerations -- Receiver System Analysis and Design -- Transmitter System Analysis and Design -- Applications of System Design.RF System Design of Transceivers for Wireless Communications is for RF Engineers and, in particular, those engineers focusing mostly on RF systems and RFIC design. The author develops systematic methods f…
Resources of Microcontrollers -- Using the Digital I/O Lines -- Using the Asynchronous Serial Interface -- Using the Synchronous Serial Interface SPI -- Using The I2C Bus -- Using the MCU Timers -- Interfacing to Analog Signals -- Using the Internal EEPROM Memory -- HC11 Development Board -- AVR Development Board -- 8051 Development Board -- Digital Voltmeter with RS232 Interface -- Simple RS48…
Fundamentals of Chemical Sensing -- Microtechnology for Chemical Sensors -- Microfabricated Chemical Sensors -- CMOS Platform Technology for Chemical Sensors -- Outlook and Future Developments.This book, "Integrated Chemical Microsensor Systems in CMOS Technology", provides a comprehensive treatment of the highly interdisciplinary field of CMOS chemical microsensor systems. It is targeted at st…
Scanning Probe Microscopy -- Scanning Probe Microscopy — Principle of Operation, Instrumentation, and Probes -- Probes in Scanning Microscopies -- Noncontact Atomic Force Microscopy and Its Related Topics -- Low Temperature Scanning Probe Microscopy -- Dynamic Force Microscopy -- Molecular Recognition Force Microscopy -- — Measurement Techniques and Applications -- Nanotribology and Nanomec…
The Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE) Mission for the NASA Earth Observing System (EOS) -- The SORCE Mission -- SORCE Contributions to New Understanding of Global Change and Solar Variability -- An Overview of the Disposition of Solar Radiation in the Lower Atmosphere: Connections to the SORCE Mission and Climate Change -- The SORCE Spacecraft and Operations -- The Total Irradiance…
Adaptive Optics Instrumentation, Data Acquisition and Reduction Strategies -- The Sun and (Exo-)Planets -- Star Formation and Brown Dwarfs -- Evolved Stars -- Galactic Center and AGN -- Galaxies and Cosmology.The field of Adaptive Optics (AO) for astronomy has matured in recent years, and diffraction-limited image resolution in the near-infrared is now routinely achieved by ground-based 8 to 10…
Near-Field Optical Fiber Probes and the Imaging Applications -- A Novel Method for Forming Uniform Surface-Adsorbed Metal Particles and Development of a Localized Surface-Plasmon Resonance Sensor -- Near-Field Optical-Head Technology for High-Density, Near-Field Optical Recording -- Nano-Optical Media for Ultrahigh-Density Storage -- A Phenomenological Description of Optical Near Fields and Opt…