Microcomputers and Electronic Instrumentation: Making the Right Connections

The authors believe that the effectiveness of future generations of scientists depends in part on their ability to use intelligently, diagnose, and modify their microcomputer-based and electronic instrumentation.
Using a "top-down" approach, the authors present electronic concepts, principles, and technology that are impacting our daily lives. They start at the top, by providing a broad perspective of electronic instrumentation, and work down to functional modules, devices, and detailed operations. This top-down approach enables all of the pieces to fit together so that a working knowledge is developed as one proceeds through the chapters.
Written specifically for chemists, physicists, engineers, biologists, medical researchers, students, and other technical personnel who can benefit from "making the right connections" to modern instrumentation, this book will empower you to gain better control and make better use of your microcomputers and laboratory instruments.

Howard V. Malmstadt has been a pioneer in several areas of science and technology, including applied spectroscopy, automated chemical measurement systems, clinical methods, kinetic methods of analysis, and instrumentation for scientists. He has received national and international awards for these developments, which are described in over 150 journal publications and patents. He is coauthor of dozens of books, which were the basis of many new courses taught in hundreds of universities and laboratories throughout the world.

Christie G. Enke is a professor of chemistry at the University of New Mexico. His research interests include mass spectrometric instrumentation, especially tandem mass spectrometry and time-of-flight mass spectrometry, development of expert systems, microbiological characterization using mass spectrometry, and reaction of ions with molecules and photons. He has published extensively and coauthored several textbooks on the electronics of chemical instrumentation.

Stanley R. Crouch is a professor of chemistry at Michigan State University. He has written six books and more than 110 publications in various areas of his research interests which include, kinetics and mechanisms of analytical reactions, fast kinetics methods, continuous-flow methods, flow injection analysis, spectroscopy, liquid chromatography, and chemical instrumentation.