Sensors and Microsystems, 2014 Proceedings of the 17th National Conference, Brescia, Italy, 5-7 February 2013 Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering Series, Vol. 268

This book contains a selection of papers presented at the 17th AISEM (?Associazione Italiana Sensori e Microsistemi?) National Conference on Sensors and Microsystems, held in Brescia, 5-7 February, 2013. The conference highlighted state-of-the-art results from both theoretical and applied research in the field of sensors and related technologies. This book presents material in an interdisciplinary approach, covering many aspects of the disciplines related to sensors, including physics, chemistry, materials science, biology and applications.

Part I: Physical Sensors.- Investigation of Seebeck Effect In Metal-Oxide Nanowires for Powering Autonomous Microsystems.- Piezopolymer Interdigital Transducers for a Structural Health Monitoring System.- Noise and Performance of Magnetic Nanosensor Based on Superconducting Quantum Interference Device.- Non-Intrusive IR Sensor for Real Time Measurement of Gas Turbine Inlet Temperature.- Thermally Actuated Microfludic System for Polymerase Chain Reaction Applications.- Microfluidic Sensor for Noncontact Detection of Cell Flow in a Microchannel.- A Comparison Between Fresh and Thermally Aged Polyaniline Prepared by Different Approaches on the Conductivity Under High Pressure.- Thermal Sensor for Fire Localization.- Localization, Recognition and Classification of a Superficial Seismic Source in A Inhomogeneous Mean.- Design and Fabrication of a Compact P-V Probe for Acoustic Impedance Measurement.- Functional Comparison of a CMOS-Compatible P-V Microprobe with a Reference One.- Design and Characterization of a Micro Opto-Mechanical Displacement Sensor.- Multi-sensor Acoustical Systems: Calibration and Related Problems.- Automatic System to Measure the Impedance of Piezoelectric Actuators Used In Ultrasonic  Scalpels.- Part II: Chemical Sensors.- Amperometric Determination of Strong Oxidising Species Through Titanium Electrode Systems.- Oligopeptides Based Gas Sensing for Food Quality Control.- Dissolved Oxygen Sensor Based On Reduced Graphene Oxide.- Cost Action TD1105 On New Sensing Technologies For Air-Pollution Control And Environmental Sustainability: Overview in Europe and Trends.- A Smart System to Detect Volatile Organic Compounds Produced by Hydrocarbons On Sea Water.- Electrical and Morphological Characterization of TIO2 Electrospun Nanofibres.- A Handy Method for Reproducible and Stable Measurements of VOC at Trace Level in Air.- UV Effect on Indium Oxide Resistive Sensors.- Investigation of NIO Thin Film by Sputtering for Gas Sensor Applications.- Well-Ordered Titania Nanostructures For Gas Sensing.- A Disposable Ammonia Sensor by Low Cost Inkjet Printing Technology. Reproducibility of the Performances of Graphene Based Gas Sensitive Chemiresistors.- Exfoliation of Graphite and Dispersion of Graphene in Solutions of Low Boiling Point Solvents for Use in Gas Sensor.- A High Resistance Measurement Setup for MOS Sensing Materials Characterization.- A Portable Gas Sensor System For Air Quality Monitoring.- Part III: Biosensors.- Herbicide Analysis Using a New Opie A Case Study: Sunflower Oil.- Electrochemical Aptamers-based Assay for MUC1 Detection As Diagnostic Tools in Ovarian Cancer.- Monitoring Photocatalytic Treatment of Olive Mill Wastewater (OMW) in Batch Photoreactor Using A Tyrosinase Biosensor and COD Test.- Electrochemical Antibody-Aptamer Assay For VEGF Cancer Biomarker Detection.- Electrochemical Liposome-Based Biosensors for Nucleic Acid Detection.- On Chip Diagnosis of Celiac Disease by an Amporphous Silicon Chemiluminescence Detector.- Development and Characterization of a Novel Antibacterial Material Based On GOx Immobolized in a PVA Film.- Development of A QCM (Quartz Crystal Microbalance) Biosensor to Detection of Mycotoxins.- Label-free biosensor based on a copolymer-functionalized optical fiber long period grating.- Part IV: Optical Sensors.- Chemiluminescence-based Micro-Total-Analysis System Integrating Amorphous Silicon Photodiodes.- Optical Spectroscopy for Hogwash Oil Detection in Soy-bean Chinese Oils.- Ultra Compact Optical Fiber Farbry-Perot Interferometer Based On In-line Integrated Sub-Micron Silicon Film.- Polymeric Microflow Cytofluometer.- On the Design of Clad-etched Fiber Bragg Grating Sensor for Magnetic Field Sensing Applications.- Moisture Measurement System for Brick-Kiln.- Breath Figures Onto Optical Fibers for Miniaturized Sensing Probes.- Sensitivity of Wood-Rayleigh Anomalies in Metallic Nanogratings.- Sensored Hand Held Fiber-optic Delivery System for Controlled Laser Ablation.- Differential Pulsewidth-pair Brillouin Optical Time-Domain Analysis Employing Raman Amplification and Optical Pulse Coding.-  Water-jet Waveguide for Fluorescence Spectroscopy.- Part V: Microsystems.- The Moore's II Law and Microsystems Manufacturing.- Development of a Low Cost Planar Micro Thermoelectric Generator.- Dielectric Layers for Mems Deposited at Room Temperature By HMDSO-PECVD.- Label Free Detection of Specific RNA Sequences by a DNA-based CMOS Biomems.- Thin Film Device for Background Photocurrent Rejection in Biomolecular Analysis Systems.- FEM Modeling of Nanostructures for Sensors Application.- Part VI: Sensor Electronics and Sensor Systems.- Supervised Machine Learning Scheme for Wearable Accelerometer-based Fall Detector.- Low-Voltage Low-Power Portable and Non-Invasive Sensor Test Equipment for The Heartbeat Monitoring.- A Mems Flow Sensor Based On a Sigma Delta Modulator Embedded in the Thermal Domain.- Optimal Parameters Selection For Novel Low Voltage Vibration Energy Harvesters.- Wireless Sensor Networks for Distributed Measurements.- An Ultrasonic Human-Computer Interface.- Power Management Circuit Analysis For An Inductive Energy Harvester.- Energy Harvesters for Remote Sensor Networks.- Development of a Low Power Attitude and Heading Reference System for Motion Tracking Applications.- A Novel Method to Size Resistance for Biasing the Posfet Sensors in Common Drain Configuration.- A Novel Wireless Battery Recharge System for Wearable/Portable Devices.- Optical Trigger for Medium Voltage Sustation.- Characterization of a Novel Ultra Low-Power-System-On-Chip for Biopotentials Measurement.- A Gas Multisensor Platform for Biometric and Environmental Applications.- A Modified De-Sauty Autobalancing Bridge-based Interface for Wide-range Capacitive Sensor Applications.- A new CMOS-Integrated Analog Lock-In Amplifier for Automatic Measurement of Very Small Signals.- Impact-Enhanced Multi-beam Piezoelectric Converter for Energy Harvesting In Autonomous Sensors.- A Low-cost Electronic Interface for Electrochemical and Semiconductor Gas Sensors.- Modeling Hysteresis Losses in Magnetic Core Inductors for DC-DC Conversion.- Nonlinear Multi-frequency Converter Array for Energy Harvesting from Broadband Low-frequency Vibrations.- A Wireless Sensor Network Architecture for Structural Health Monitoring.- Characterization of Multi-Sensor System for Non-Invasive Measurement of Vital Parameters.- Wireless Sensor Network Based on WM-Bus for Leakage Detection In Gas and Water Pipes.- Arduino-based Shield for Resistive Sensor Array Characterization.- Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting from Von Karman Vortices.- Mobile System for Air Pollution Evaluation.- Part VII: Applications.- A Wearable Sweat PH and Body Temperature Sensor Platform for Health, Fitness and Wellness Applications.- Influence Quantity Estimation in Face Recognition Digital Processing Algorithms.- Printed Sensors on Textiles for Biomedical Applications.- E-Nose as a Potential Quality Assurance Technology for the Detection of Surface Contamination by Aeronautic Fluids.- IMS Development at NRNU MEPHI.- Fiber-Optic Flow Sensor for the Measurement of Inspiratory Efforts in Mechanical Neonatal Ventilation.- Determination Of Polyphenols in Bakery Food Matrices With New Detection Methods.- Electronic Nose and Gas Chromatography-mass Spectrometry for the Phillipine Civet Coffee Discrimination.- Simulation of Chlorine Decay in Drinking Water Distribution Systems Case Study of Santa Sofia Network (Southern Italy).- Use of Kinetic Models for Predicting DBP Formation in Water Supply Systems.- Development of Electronic-nose Technologies for Biomedical Applications.

Provides a selection of the best papers from the 17th National Conference on Sensors and Microsystems

Covers a broad range of topics relating to sensors and microsystems, including physics, chemistry, materials science, biology and applications

Offers interdisciplinary coverage, aimed at defining a common ground for sensors beyond the specific differences among the different particular implementation of sensors