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89-592: Various sensor technologies are used to capture physical data such as bending of fingers . Often a motion tracker, such as a magnetic tracking device or inertial tracking device , is attached to capture the global position/rotation data of the glove. These movements are then interpreted by the software that accompanies the glove, so any one movement can mean any number of things. Gestures can then be categorized into useful information, such as to recognize sign language or other symbolic functions. Expensive high-end wired gloves can also provide haptic feedback, which

178-509: A capacitor is a device that stores electrical energy by accumulating electric charges on two closely spaced surfaces that are insulated from each other. The capacitor was originally known as the condenser , a term still encountered in a few compound names, such as the condenser microphone . It is a passive electronic component with two terminals . The utility of a capacitor depends on its capacitance . While some capacitance exists between any two electrical conductors in proximity in

267-509: A circuit , a capacitor is a component designed specifically to add capacitance to some part of the circuit. The physical form and construction of practical capacitors vary widely and many types of capacitor are in common use. Most capacitors contain at least two electrical conductors , often in the form of metallic plates or surfaces separated by a dielectric medium. A conductor may be a foil, thin film, sintered bead of metal, or an electrolyte . The nonconducting dielectric acts to increase

356-526: A resistor , an ideal capacitor does not dissipate energy, although real-life capacitors do dissipate a small amount (see Non-ideal behavior ). The earliest forms of capacitors were created in the 1740s, when European experimenters discovered that electric charge could be stored in water-filled glass jars that came to be known as Leyden jars . Today, capacitors are widely used in electronic circuits for blocking direct current while allowing alternating current to pass. In analog filter networks, they smooth

445-471: A vacuum or an electrical insulator material known as a dielectric . Examples of dielectric media are glass, air, paper, plastic, ceramic, and even a semiconductor depletion region chemically identical to the conductors. From Coulomb's law a charge on one conductor will exert a force on the charge carriers within the other conductor, attracting opposite polarity charge and repelling like polarity charges, thus an opposite polarity charge will be induced on

534-484: A "Low voltage electrolytic capacitor with porous carbon electrodes". He believed that the energy was stored as a charge in the carbon pores used in his capacitor as in the pores of the etched foils of electrolytic capacitors. Because the double layer mechanism was not known by him at the time, he wrote in the patent: "It is not known exactly what is taking place in the component if it is used for energy storage, but it leads to an extremely high capacity." The MOS capacitor

623-447: A certain distance, and where the metal gate is replaced by an ion -sensitive membrane , electrolyte solution and reference electrode . The ISFET is widely used in biomedical applications, such as the detection of DNA hybridization , biomarker detection from blood , antibody detection, glucose measurement, pH sensing, and genetic technology . By the mid-1980s, numerous other MOSFET sensors had been developed, including

712-480: A dielectric of permittivity ε {\displaystyle \varepsilon } . It is assumed the gap d {\displaystyle d} is much smaller than the dimensions of the plates. This model applies well to many practical capacitors which are constructed of metal sheets separated by a thin layer of insulating dielectric, since manufacturers try to keep the dielectric very uniform in thickness to avoid thin spots which can cause failure of

801-471: A digital signal, using an analog-to-digital converter . Since sensors cannot replicate an ideal transfer function , several types of deviations can occur which limit sensor accuracy : All these deviations can be classified as systematic errors or random errors . Systematic errors can sometimes be compensated for by means of some kind of calibration strategy. Noise is a random error that can be reduced by signal processing , such as filtering, usually at

890-700: A finite amount of energy before dielectric breakdown occurs. The capacitor's dielectric material has a dielectric strength U d which sets the capacitor's breakdown voltage at V = V bd = U d d . The maximum energy that the capacitor can store is therefore E = 1 2 C V 2 = 1 2 ε A d ( U d d ) 2 = 1 2 ε A d U d 2 {\displaystyle E={\frac {1}{2}}CV^{2}={\frac {1}{2}}{\frac {\varepsilon A}{d}}\left(U_{d}d\right)^{2}={\frac {1}{2}}\varepsilon AdU_{d}^{2}} The maximum energy

979-491: A flexible dielectric sheet (like oiled paper) sandwiched between sheets of metal foil, rolled or folded into a small package. Early capacitors were known as condensers , a term that is still occasionally used today, particularly in high power applications, such as automotive systems. The term condensatore was used by Alessandro Volta in 1780 to refer to a device, similar to his electrophorus , he developed to measure electricity, and translated in 1782 as condenser , where

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1068-452: A higher-frequency signal or a larger capacitor results in a lower voltage amplitude per current amplitude – an AC "short circuit" or AC coupling . Conversely, for very low frequencies, the reactance is high, so that a capacitor is nearly an open circuit in AC analysis – those frequencies have been "filtered out". Capacitors are different from resistors and inductors in that the impedance

1157-614: A miniaturized and more reliable low-voltage support capacitor to complement their newly invented transistor . With the development of plastic materials by organic chemists during the Second World War , the capacitor industry began to replace paper with thinner polymer films. One very early development in film capacitors was described in British Patent 587,953 in 1944. Electric double-layer capacitors (now supercapacitors ) were invented in 1957 when H. Becker developed

1246-480: A sharp distinction between a biosensor and a standard chemical sensor is superfluous. Typical biomimetic materials used in sensor development are molecularly imprinted polymers and aptamers . In biomedicine and biotechnology , sensors which detect analytes thanks to a biological component, such as cells, protein, nucleic acid or biomimetic polymers , are called biosensors . Whereas a non-biological sensor, even organic (carbon chemistry), for biological analytes

1335-576: A similar capacitor, which was named the Leyden jar , after the University of Leiden where he worked. He also was impressed by the power of the shock he received, writing, "I would not take a second shock for the kingdom of France." Daniel Gralath was the first to combine several jars in parallel to increase the charge storage capacity. Benjamin Franklin investigated the Leyden jar and came to

1424-420: A thermometer moves 1  cm when the temperature changes by 1 °C, its sensitivity is 1 cm/°C (it is basically the slope dy/dx assuming a linear characteristic). Some sensors can also affect what they measure; for instance, a room temperature thermometer inserted into a hot cup of liquid cools the liquid while the liquid heats the thermometer. Sensors are usually designed to have a small effect on what

1513-428: A two-dimensional mouse and a few computer games were specially adapted to provide "3D" support for it. The P5 glove is compatible with Microsoft Windows XP and the classic Mac OS . Unofficial drivers for Linux exist as well. While it received some positive reviews from gadget and gaming magazines, its lack of compatible software and other issues caused it to remain a novelty. It has since been discontinued. Following

1602-467: A voltage of one volt across the device. Because the conductors (or plates) are close together, the opposite charges on the conductors attract one another due to their electric fields, allowing the capacitor to store more charge for a given voltage than when the conductors are separated, yielding a larger capacitance. In practical devices, charge build-up sometimes affects the capacitor mechanically, causing its capacitance to vary. In this case, capacitance

1691-469: A volume of water in a hand-held glass jar. Von Kleist's hand and the water acted as conductors and the jar as a dielectric (although details of the mechanism were incorrectly identified at the time). Von Kleist found that touching the wire resulted in a powerful spark, much more painful than that obtained from an electrostatic machine. The following year, the Dutch physicist Pieter van Musschenbroek invented

1780-590: Is inversely proportional to the defining characteristic; i.e., capacitance . A capacitor connected to an alternating voltage source has a displacement current to flowing through it. In the case that the voltage source is V 0 cos(ωt), the displacement current can be expressed as: I = C d V d t = − ω C V 0 sin ⁡ ( ω t ) {\displaystyle I=C{\frac {{\text{d}}V}{{\text{d}}t}}=-\omega {C}{V_{0}}\sin(\omega t)} At sin( ωt ) = −1 ,

1869-400: Is a function of dielectric volume, permittivity , and dielectric strength . Changing the plate area and the separation between the plates while maintaining the same volume causes no change of the maximum amount of energy that the capacitor can store, so long as the distance between plates remains much smaller than both the length and width of the plates. In addition, these equations assume that

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1958-438: Is a self-contained analytical device that can provide information about the chemical composition of its environment, that is, a liquid or a gas phase . The information is provided in the form of a measurable physical signal that is correlated with the concentration of a certain chemical species (termed as analyte ). Two main steps are involved in the functioning of a chemical sensor, namely, recognition and transduction . In

2047-440: Is a simulation of the sense of touch. This allows a wired glove to also be used as an output device. Traditionally, wired gloves have only been available at a huge cost, with the finger bend sensors and the tracking device having to be bought separately. Wired gloves are often used in virtual reality environments and to mimic human hand movement by robots. The Sayre Glove, created by Electronic Visualization Laboratory in 1977,

2136-403: Is a wide range of other sensors that measure chemical and physical properties of materials, including optical sensors for refractive index measurement, vibrational sensors for fluid viscosity measurement, and electro-chemical sensors for monitoring pH of fluids. A sensor's sensitivity indicates how much its output changes when the input quantity it measures changes. For instance, if the mercury in

2225-471: Is added to represent the initial voltage V ( t 0 ). This is the integral form of the capacitor equation: V ( t ) = Q ( t ) C = V ( t 0 ) + 1 C ∫ t 0 t I ( τ ) d τ {\displaystyle V(t)={\frac {Q(t)}{C}}=V(t_{0})+{\frac {1}{C}}\int _{t_{0}}^{t}I(\tau )\,\mathrm {d} \tau } Taking

2314-408: Is approximately the same width as the plate separation, d {\displaystyle d} , and assuming d {\displaystyle d} is small compared to the plate dimensions, it is small enough to be ignored. Therefore, if a charge of + Q {\displaystyle +Q} is placed on one plate and − Q {\displaystyle -Q} on

2403-447: Is defined as C = Q / V {\displaystyle C=Q/V} . Substituting V {\displaystyle V} above into this equation C = ε A d {\displaystyle C={\frac {\varepsilon A}{d}}} Therefore, in a capacitor the highest capacitance is achieved with a high permittivity dielectric material, large plate area, and small separation between

2492-419: Is defined in terms of incremental changes: C = d Q d V {\displaystyle C={\frac {\mathrm {d} Q}{\mathrm {d} V}}} In the hydraulic analogy , voltage is analogous to water pressure and electrical current through a wire is analogous to water flow through a pipe. A capacitor is like an elastic diaphragm within the pipe. Although water cannot pass through

2581-475: Is equal to the energy density per unit volume in the electric field multiplied by the volume of field between the plates, confirming that the energy in the capacitor is stored in its electric field. The current I ( t ) through any component in an electric circuit is defined as the rate of flow of a charge Q ( t ) passing through it. Actual charges – electrons – cannot pass through the dielectric of an ideal capacitor. Rather, one electron accumulates on

2670-739: Is measured; making the sensor smaller often improves this and may introduce other advantages. Technological progress allows more and more sensors to be manufactured on a microscopic scale as microsensors using MEMS technology. In most cases, a microsensor reaches a significantly faster measurement time and higher sensitivity compared with macroscopic approaches. Due to the increasing demand for rapid, affordable and reliable information in today's world, disposable sensors—low-cost and easy‐to‐use devices for short‐term monitoring or single‐shot measurements—have recently gained growing importance. Using this class of sensors, critical analytical information can be obtained by anyone, anywhere and at any time, without

2759-403: Is referred to as sensor or nanosensor . This terminology applies for both in-vitro and in vivo applications. The encapsulation of the biological component in biosensors, presents a slightly different problem that ordinary sensors; this can either be done by means of a semipermeable barrier , such as a dialysis membrane or a hydrogel , or a 3D polymer matrix, which either physically constrains

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2848-491: Is sweat. Sensor A sensor is a device that produces an output signal for the purpose of detecting a physical phenomenon. In the broadest definition, a sensor is a device, module, machine, or subsystem that detects events or changes in its environment and sends the information to other electronics, frequently a computer processor. Sensors are used in everyday objects such as touch-sensitive elevator buttons ( tactile sensor ) and lamps which dim or brighten by touching

2937-956: Is the time constant of the system. As the capacitor reaches equilibrium with the source voltage, the voltages across the resistor and the current through the entire circuit decay exponentially . In the case of a discharging capacitor, the capacitor's initial voltage ( V Ci ) replaces V 0 . The equations become I ( t ) = V C i R e − t / τ 0 V ( t ) = V C i e − t / τ 0 Q ( t ) = C V C i e − t / τ 0 {\displaystyle {\begin{aligned}I(t)&={\frac {V_{Ci}}{R}}e^{-t/\tau _{0}}\\V(t)&=V_{Ci}\,e^{-t/\tau _{0}}\\Q(t)&=C\,V_{Ci}\,e^{-t/\tau _{0}}\end{aligned}}} Impedance ,

3026-419: Is the imaginary unit and ω is the angular frequency of the sinusoidal signal. The − j phase indicates that the AC voltage V = ZI lags the AC current by 90°: the positive current phase corresponds to increasing voltage as the capacitor charges; zero current corresponds to instantaneous constant voltage, etc. Impedance decreases with increasing capacitance and increasing frequency. This implies that

3115-570: Is the basis for modern image sensors , including the charge-coupled device (CCD) and the CMOS active-pixel sensor (CMOS sensor), used in digital imaging and digital cameras . Willard Boyle and George E. Smith developed the CCD in 1969. While researching the MOS process, they realized that an electric charge was the analogy of the magnetic bubble and that it could be stored on a tiny MOS capacitor. As it

3204-482: Is the capacitance for a single plate and n {\displaystyle n} is the number of interleaved plates. As shown to the figure on the right, the interleaved plates can be seen as parallel plates connected to each other. Every pair of adjacent plates acts as a separate capacitor; the number of pairs is always one less than the number of plates, hence the ( n − 1 ) {\displaystyle (n-1)} multiplier. To increase

3293-407: Is the charge stored in the capacitor, V {\displaystyle V} is the voltage across the capacitor, and C {\displaystyle C} is the capacitance. This potential energy will remain in the capacitor until the charge is removed. If charge is allowed to move back from the positive to the negative plate, for example by connecting a circuit with resistance between

3382-800: Is then I (0) = V 0 / R . With this assumption, solving the differential equation yields I ( t ) = V 0 R e − t / τ 0 V ( t ) = V 0 ( 1 − e − t / τ 0 ) Q ( t ) = C V 0 ( 1 − e − t / τ 0 ) {\displaystyle {\begin{aligned}I(t)&={\frac {V_{0}}{R}}e^{-t/\tau _{0}}\\V(t)&=V_{0}\left(1-e^{-t/\tau _{0}}\right)\\Q(t)&=CV_{0}\left(1-e^{-t/\tau _{0}}\right)\end{aligned}}} where τ 0 = RC

3471-534: The gas sensor FET (GASFET), surface accessible FET (SAFET), charge flow transistor (CFT), pressure sensor FET (PRESSFET), chemical field-effect transistor (ChemFET), reference ISFET (REFET), biosensor FET (BioFET), enzyme-modified FET (ENFET) and immunologically modified FET (IMFET). By the early 2000s, BioFET types such as the DNA field-effect transistor (DNAFET), gene-modified FET (GenFET) and cell-potential BioFET (CPFET) had been developed. MOS technology

3560-491: The 3D pose and trajectory of the hand, at the cost of tactile feedback. The film adaptation of Minority Report makes use of wireless gloves to control futuristic computer-like peripherals. The Mattel Power Glove was prominently shown off in the Nintendo product placement film The Wizard , memorably wielded by antagonist Lucas Barton ( Jackey Vinson ). The concept of a wired glove has been traditionally popular in

3649-717: The CyberTouch, which vibrates each individual finger of the glove when a finger touches an object in virtual reality; the CyberGrasp which actually simulates squeezing and touching of solid as well as spongy objects; and the CyberForce device which does all of the above and also measures the precise motion of the user's entire arm. In 2002, the P5 Glove was released by Essential Reality (hardware designed by Johathan Clarke and Leigh Boyd). In normal applications, it worked as

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3738-415: The P5 Glove was the 5th Glove, a data glove and flexor strip kit (5th Glove DFK) sold by Fifth Dimension Technologies . The package uses flexible optical-bending sensing to track hand and arm movement. The glove can be used with 5DT's ultrasonic tracking system, the 5DT Head and 5DT Hand tracker, which can track movement from up to two metres away from the unit's transmitter. Concerned about the high cost of

3827-557: The base, and in innumerable applications of which most people are never aware. With advances in micromachinery and easy-to-use microcontroller platforms, the uses of sensors have expanded beyond the traditional fields of temperature, pressure and flow measurement, for example into MARG sensors . Analog sensors such as potentiometers and force-sensing resistors are still widely used. Their applications include manufacturing and machinery, airplanes and aerospace, cars, medicine, robotics and many other aspects of our day-to-day life. There

3916-546: The capacitor has a maximum (or peak) current whereby I 0 = ωCV 0 . The ratio of peak voltage to peak current is due to capacitive reactance (denoted X C ). X C = V 0 I 0 = V 0 ω C V 0 = 1 ω C {\displaystyle X_{C}={\frac {V_{0}}{I_{0}}}={\frac {V_{0}}{\omega CV_{0}}}={\frac {1}{\omega C}}} X C approaches zero as ω approaches infinity. If X C approaches 0,

4005-575: The capacitor is initially uncharged while the switch is open, and the switch is closed at t = 0 , it follows from Kirchhoff's voltage law that V 0 = v resistor ( t ) + v capacitor ( t ) = i ( t ) R + 1 C ∫ t 0 t i ( τ ) d τ {\displaystyle V_{0}=v_{\text{resistor}}(t)+v_{\text{capacitor}}(t)=i(t)R+{\frac {1}{C}}\int _{t_{0}}^{t}i(\tau )\,\mathrm {d} \tau } Taking

4094-411: The capacitor is the inductor , which stores energy in a magnetic field rather than an electric field. Its current-voltage relation is obtained by exchanging current and voltage in the capacitor equations and replacing C with the inductance  L . A series circuit containing only a resistor , a capacitor, a switch and a constant DC source of voltage V 0 is known as a charging circuit . If

4183-687: The capacitor resembles a short wire that strongly passes current at high frequencies. X C approaches infinity as ω approaches zero. If X C approaches infinity, the capacitor resembles an open circuit that poorly passes low frequencies. The current of the capacitor may be expressed in the form of cosines to better compare with the voltage of the source: I = − I 0 sin ⁡ ( ω t ) = I 0 cos ⁡ ( ω t + 90 ∘ ) {\displaystyle I=-I_{0}\sin({\omega t})=I_{0}\cos({\omega t}+{90^{\circ }})} In this situation,

4272-465: The capacitor's charge capacity. Materials commonly used as dielectrics include glass , ceramic , plastic film , paper , mica , air, and oxide layers . When an electric potential difference (a voltage ) is applied across the terminals of a capacitor, for example when a capacitor is connected across a battery, an electric field develops across the dielectric, causing a net positive charge to collect on one plate and net negative charge to collect on

4361-413: The capacitor. Since the separation between the plates is uniform over the plate area, the electric field between the plates E {\displaystyle E} is constant, and directed perpendicularly to the plate surface, except for an area near the edges of the plates where the field decreases because the electric field lines "bulge" out of the sides of the capacitor. This "fringing field" area

4450-438: The charge and voltage on a capacitor, work must be done by an external power source to move charge from the negative to the positive plate against the opposing force of the electric field. If the voltage on the capacitor is V {\displaystyle V} , the work d W {\displaystyle dW} required to move a small increment of charge d q {\displaystyle dq} from

4539-430: The conclusion that the charge was stored on the glass, not in the water as others had assumed. He also adopted the term "battery", (denoting the increase of power with a row of similar units as in a battery of cannon ), subsequently applied to clusters of electrochemical cells . In 1747, Leyden jars were made by coating the inside and outside of jars with metal foil, leaving a space at the mouth to prevent arcing between

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4628-402: The derivative and multiplying by C , gives a first-order differential equation : R C d i ( t ) d t + i ( t ) = 0 {\displaystyle RC{\frac {\mathrm {d} i(t)}{\mathrm {d} t}}+i(t)=0} At t = 0 , the voltage across the capacitor is zero and the voltage across the resistor is V 0 . The initial current

4717-429: The derivative of this and multiplying by C yields the derivative form: I ( t ) = d Q ( t ) d t = C d V ( t ) d t {\displaystyle I(t)={\frac {\mathrm {d} Q(t)}{\mathrm {d} t}}=C{\frac {\mathrm {d} V(t)}{\mathrm {d} t}}} for C independent of time, voltage and electric charge. The dual of

4806-480: The diaphragm, it moves as the diaphragm stretches or un-stretches. In a circuit, a capacitor can behave differently at different time instants. However, it is usually easy to think about the short-time limit and long-time limit: The simplest model of a capacitor consists of two thin parallel conductive plates each with an area of A {\displaystyle A} separated by a uniform gap of thickness d {\displaystyle d} filled with

4895-401: The dielectric for the first capacitors. Paper capacitors, made by sandwiching a strip of impregnated paper between strips of metal and rolling the result into a cylinder, were commonly used in the late 19th century; their manufacture started in 1876, and they were used from the early 20th century as decoupling capacitors in telephony . Porcelain was used in the first ceramic capacitors . In

4984-507: The early years of Marconi 's wireless transmitting apparatus, porcelain capacitors were used for high voltage and high frequency application in the transmitters . On the receiver side, smaller mica capacitors were used for resonant circuits . Mica capacitors were invented in 1909 by William Dubilier. Prior to World War II, mica was the most common dielectric for capacitors in the United States. Charles Pollak (born Karol Pollak ),

5073-442: The electric field is entirely concentrated in the dielectric between the plates. In reality there are fringing fields outside the dielectric, for example between the sides of the capacitor plates, which increase the effective capacitance of the capacitor. This is sometimes called parasitic capacitance . For some simple capacitor geometries this additional capacitance term can be calculated analytically. It becomes negligibly small when

5162-499: The expense of the dynamic behavior of the sensor. The sensor resolution or measurement resolution is the smallest change that can be detected in the quantity that is being measured. The resolution of a sensor with a digital output is usually the numerical resolution of the digital output. The resolution is related to the precision with which the measurement is made, but they are not the same thing. A sensor's accuracy may be considerably worse than its resolution. A chemical sensor

5251-471: The first stretch sensor enabled motion capture glove called the MoCap Pro. Stretch sensors are silicone-based flexible capacitors that measure stretch, bend, shear and pressure changes. The data can then be streamed into software platforms such as Unreal Engine , Unity and Maya to animate the hand of a virtual character. An alternative to wired gloves is to use a camera and computer vision to track

5340-476: The foils. The earliest unit of capacitance was the jar , equivalent to about 1.11 nanofarads . Leyden jars or more powerful devices employing flat glass plates alternating with foil conductors were used exclusively up until about 1900, when the invention of wireless ( radio ) created a demand for standard capacitors, and the steady move to higher frequencies required capacitors with lower inductance . More compact construction methods began to be used, such as

5429-405: The inventor of the first electrolytic capacitors , found out that the oxide layer on an aluminum anode remained stable in a neutral or alkaline electrolyte , even when the power was switched off. In 1896 he was granted U.S. Patent No. 672,913 for an "Electric liquid capacitor with aluminum electrodes". Solid electrolyte tantalum capacitors were invented by Bell Laboratories in the early 1950s as

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5518-445: The most complete commercial solutions, Pamplona et al. propose a new input device: an image-based data glove (IBDG). By attaching a camera to the hand of the user and a visual marker to each finger tip, they use computer vision techniques to estimate the relative position of the finger tips. Once they have information about the tips, they apply inverse kinematics techniques in order to estimate the position of each finger joint and recreate

5607-422: The movements of the fingers of the user in a virtual world. Adding a motion tracker device, one can also map pitch, yaw, roll and XYZ-translations of the hand of the user, (almost) recreating all the gesture and posture performed by the hand of the user in a low cost device. A modern alternative to inertial, optical and magnetic technology is the use of stretch sensors. New Zealand company StretchSense has developed

5696-621: The name referred to the device's ability to store a higher density of electric charge than was possible with an isolated conductor. The term became deprecated because of the ambiguous meaning of steam condenser , with capacitor becoming the recommended term in the UK from 1926, while the change occurred considerably later in the United States. Since the beginning of the study of electricity , non-conductive materials like glass , porcelain , paper and mica have been used as insulators . Decades later, these materials were also well-suited for use as

5785-409: The need for recalibration and worrying about contamination. A good sensor obeys the following rules: Most sensors have a linear transfer function . The sensitivity is then defined as the ratio between the output signal and measured property. For example, if a sensor measures temperature and has a voltage output, the sensitivity is constant with the units [V/K]. The sensitivity is the slope of

5874-415: The negative plate for each one that leaves the positive plate, resulting in an electron depletion and consequent positive charge on one electrode that is equal and opposite to the accumulated negative charge on the other. Thus the charge on the electrodes is equal to the integral of the current as well as proportional to the voltage, as discussed above. As with any antiderivative , a constant of integration

5963-911: The negative to the positive plate is d W = V d q {\displaystyle dW=Vdq} . The energy is stored in the increased electric field between the plates. The total energy W {\displaystyle W} stored in a capacitor (expressed in joules ) is equal to the total work done in establishing the electric field from an uncharged state. W = ∫ 0 Q V ( q ) d q = ∫ 0 Q q C d q = 1 2 Q 2 C = 1 2 V Q = 1 2 C V 2 {\displaystyle W=\int _{0}^{Q}V(q)\,\mathrm {d} q=\int _{0}^{Q}{\frac {q}{C}}\,\mathrm {d} q={\frac {1}{2}}{\frac {Q^{2}}{C}}={\frac {1}{2}}VQ={\frac {1}{2}}CV^{2}} where Q {\displaystyle Q}

6052-406: The open-gate field-effect transistor (OGFET) introduced by Johannessen in 1970, the ion-sensitive field-effect transistor (ISFET) invented by Piet Bergveld in 1970, the adsorption FET (ADFET) patented by P.F. Cox in 1974, and a hydrogen -sensitive MOSFET demonstrated by I. Lundstrom, M.S. Shivaraman, C.S. Svenson and L. Lundkvist in 1975. The ISFET is a special type of MOSFET with a gate at

6141-416: The other plate (the situation for unevenly charged plates is discussed below), the charge on each plate will be spread evenly in a surface charge layer of constant charge density σ = ± Q / A {\displaystyle \sigma =\pm Q/A} coulombs per square meter, on the inside surface of each plate. From Gauss's law the magnitude of the electric field between

6230-514: The other plate. No current actually flows through a perfect dielectric . However, there is a flow of charge through the source circuit. If the condition is maintained sufficiently long, the current through the source circuit ceases. If a time-varying voltage is applied across the leads of the capacitor, the source experiences an ongoing current due to the charging and discharging cycles of the capacitor. Capacitors are widely used as parts of electrical circuits in many common electrical devices. Unlike

6319-431: The output of power supplies . In resonant circuits they tune radios to particular frequencies . In electric power transmission systems, they stabilize voltage and power flow. The property of energy storage in capacitors was exploited as dynamic memory in early digital computers, and still is in modern DRAM . Natural capacitors have existed since prehistoric times. The most common example of natural capacitance are

6408-668: The plates is E = σ / ε {\displaystyle E=\sigma /\varepsilon } . The voltage(difference) V {\displaystyle V} between the plates is defined as the line integral of the electric field over a line (in the z-direction) from one plate to another V = ∫ 0 d E ( z ) d z = E d = σ ε d = Q d ε A {\displaystyle V=\int _{0}^{d}E(z)\,\mathrm {d} z=Ed={\frac {\sigma }{\varepsilon }}d={\frac {Qd}{\varepsilon A}}} The capacitance

6497-451: The plates, the charge moving under the influence of the electric field will do work on the external circuit. If the gap between the capacitor plates d {\displaystyle d} is constant, as in the parallel plate model above, the electric field between the plates will be uniform (neglecting fringing fields) and will have a constant value E = V / d {\displaystyle E=V/d} . In this case

6586-446: The plates. Since the area A {\displaystyle A} of the plates increases with the square of the linear dimensions and the separation d {\displaystyle d} increases linearly, the capacitance scales with the linear dimension of a capacitor ( C ∝ L {\displaystyle C\varpropto L} ), or as the cube root of the volume. A parallel plate capacitor can only store

6675-499: The ratios of plate width to separation and length to separation are large. For unevenly charged plates: For n {\displaystyle n} number of plates in a capacitor, the total capacitance would be C = ε o A d ( n − 1 ) {\displaystyle C=\varepsilon _{o}{\frac {A}{d}}(n-1)} where C = ε o A / d {\displaystyle C=\varepsilon _{o}A/d}

6764-521: The recognition step, analyte molecules interact selectively with receptor molecules or sites included in the structure of the recognition element of the sensor. Consequently, a characteristic physical parameter varies and this variation is reported by means of an integrated transducer that generates the output signal. A chemical sensor based on recognition material of biological nature is a biosensor . However, as synthetic biomimetic materials are going to substitute to some extent recognition biomaterials,

6853-571: The research and engineering community. Engineers continue to develop prototypes that use innovative sensor technologies and architectures to achieve the goal of gesture recognition. For example, one such project is the Smart Glove , developed in 2009 by the then electronics engineering students Arvind Ramana, Subramanian KS, Suresh and Shiva. This project was an innovative design making interesting use of hall effect switches and custom home made bend sensors. One major barrier to adoption of datagloves

6942-665: The sensing macromolecule or chemically constrains the macromolecule by bounding it to the scaffold. Neuromorphic sensors are sensors that physically mimic structures and functions of biological neural entities. One example of this is the event camera . The MOSFET invented at Bell Labs between 1955 and 1960, MOSFET sensors (MOS sensors) were later developed, and they have since been widely used to measure physical , chemical , biological and environmental parameters. A number of MOSFET sensors have been developed, for measuring physical , chemical , biological , and environmental parameters. The earliest MOSFET sensors include

7031-453: The static charges accumulated between clouds in the sky and the surface of the Earth, where the air between them serves as the dielectric. This results in bolts of lightning when the breakdown voltage of the air is exceeded. In October 1745, Ewald Georg von Kleist of Pomerania , Germany, found that charge could be stored by connecting a high-voltage electrostatic generator by a wire to

7120-623: The stored energy can be calculated from the electric field strength W = 1 2 C V 2 = 1 2 ε A d ( E d ) 2 = 1 2 ε A d E 2 = 1 2 ε E 2 ( volume of electric field ) {\displaystyle W={\frac {1}{2}}CV^{2}={\frac {1}{2}}{\frac {\varepsilon A}{d}}\left(Ed\right)^{2}={\frac {1}{2}}\varepsilon AdE^{2}={\frac {1}{2}}\varepsilon E^{2}({\text{volume of electric field}})} The last formula above

7209-608: The surface of the other conductor. The conductors thus hold equal and opposite charges on their facing surfaces, and the dielectric develops an electric field. An ideal capacitor is characterized by a constant capacitance C , in farads in the SI system of units, defined as the ratio of the positive or negative charge Q on each conductor to the voltage V between them: C = Q V {\displaystyle C={\frac {Q}{V}}} A capacitance of one farad (F) means that one coulomb of charge on each conductor causes

7298-459: The transfer function. Converting the sensor's electrical output (for example V) to the measured units (for example K) requires dividing the electrical output by the slope (or multiplying by its reciprocal). In addition, an offset is frequently added or subtracted. For example, −40 must be added to the output if 0 V output corresponds to −40 C input. For an analog sensor signal to be processed or used in digital equipment, it needs to be converted to

7387-951: The vector sum of reactance and resistance , describes the phase difference and the ratio of amplitudes between sinusoidally varying voltage and sinusoidally varying current at a given frequency. Fourier analysis allows any signal to be constructed from a spectrum of frequencies, whence the circuit's reaction to the various frequencies may be found. The reactance and impedance of a capacitor are respectively X = − 1 ω C = − 1 2 π f C Z = 1 j ω C = − j ω C = − j 2 π f C {\displaystyle {\begin{aligned}X&=-{\frac {1}{\omega C}}=-{\frac {1}{2\pi fC}}\\Z&={\frac {1}{j\omega C}}=-{\frac {j}{\omega C}}=-{\frac {j}{2\pi fC}}\end{aligned}}} where j

7476-431: Was fairly straightforward to fabricate a series of MOS capacitors in a row, they connected a suitable voltage to them so that the charge could be stepped along from one to the next. The CCD is a semiconductor circuit that was later used in the first digital video cameras for television broadcasting . The MOS active-pixel sensor (APS) was developed by Tsutomu Nakamura at Olympus in 1985. The CMOS active-pixel sensor

7565-620: Was followed by the CyberGlove , created by Virtual Technologies, Inc. in 1990. Virtual Technologies was acquired by Immersion Corporation in September 2000. In 2009, the CyberGlove line of products was divested by Immersion Corporation and a new company, CyberGlove Systems LLC, took over development, manufacturing and sales of the CyberGlove. In addition to the CyberGlove, Immersion Corp also developed three other data glove products:

7654-687: Was invented by Young L. Harvill who scratched the fiber near the finger joint to make it locally sensitive to bending. One of the first wired gloves available to home users in 1987 was the Nintendo Power Glove . This was designed as a gaming glove for the Nintendo Entertainment System . It had a crude tracker and finger bend sensors, plus buttons on the back. The resistive sensors in the PowerGlove were also used by hobbyists to create their own datagloves. This

7743-1122: Was later developed by Eric Fossum and his team in the early 1990s. MOS image sensors are widely used in optical mouse technology. The first optical mouse, invented by Richard F. Lyon at Xerox in 1980, used a 5   μm NMOS sensor chip. Since the first commercial optical mouse, the IntelliMouse introduced in 1999, most optical mouse devices use CMOS sensors. MOS monitoring sensors are used for house monitoring , office and agriculture monitoring, traffic monitoring (including car speed , traffic jams , and traffic accidents ), weather monitoring (such as for rain , wind , lightning and storms ), defense monitoring, and monitoring temperature , humidity , air pollution , fire , health , security and lighting . MOS gas detector sensors are used to detect carbon monoxide , sulfur dioxide , hydrogen sulfide , ammonia , and other gas substances. Other MOS sensors include intelligent sensors and wireless sensor network (WSN) technology. Capacitor In electrical engineering ,

7832-404: Was later widely adopted as a storage capacitor in memory chips , and as the basic building block of the charge-coupled device (CCD) in image sensor technology. In 1966, Dr. Robert Dennard invented modern DRAM architecture, combining a single MOS transistor per capacitor. A capacitor consists of two conductors separated by a non-conductive region. The non-conductive region can either be

7921-531: Was the first wired glove. In 1982 Thomas G. Zimmerman filed a patent (US Patent 4542291) on an optical flex sensor mounted in a glove to measure finger bending. Zimmerman worked with Jaron Lanier to incorporate ultrasonic and magnetic hand position tracking technology to create the Power Glove and Data Glove, respectively (US Patent 4988981, filed 1989). The optical flex sensor used in the Data Glove

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