Systems for Printed Flexible Sensors : Design and Implementation

Flexible devices are gradually emerging as an alternative viable low-cost user-friendly technology for wearable health care services in different fields. Some of the attractive features of flexible devices are the integration of multiple sensing units with electronic circuits for any planar and non-planar mounting surfaces. With the advancement of flexible technologies, now the devices can be fabricated with superior response characteristics comparable to the conventional silicon IC technology. The purpose of the present book is to provide the readers with a single platform to develop a system using flexible sensors integrating with interfacing/signal conditioning, data conversion and communication circuits.

Key Features

• First book with focus on interfacing flexible sensors

• Comprehensive topics on different types of flexible sensors for sensing applications

• Selection of materials, design of sensor structures and fabrication of the flexible sensors

• Interfacing circuits for a range of flexible sensors including capacitive and imperfect capacitive sensors, resistive sensors and others

• Extensive incorporation of case studies

Tarikul Islam received a M.Sc. Engg. Degree in instrumentation and control systems from A. M. U. Aligarh, U.P. in 1997 and the Ph.D (Engg..) degree from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, in 2007. From 1997 to 2006, he was Assistant Professor, and from 2006 to 2012, he was Associate Professor with the Electrical Engg. Department, Jamia Millia Islamia (A Central University), New Delhi. Since, 2012, he is a Professor with the same University. He has over 20 years of teaching and research experiences. He has authored/co-authored 5 book chapters, one edited book, filed two Indian patents and published more than 155 papers in peer reviewed journals and conferences. His research interests include sensors and sensing technologies, electronic instrumentation. He is a life member of IETE (India), ISTE (India) and senior member of IEEE. He is an associate editor, IEEE Sensors journal and IEEE Trans. Instrum. and Meas. He is a co-editor of a special issue of an International Journal of Electronics, MDPI.

S. C. Mukhopadhyay holds a BEE (Gold Medalist), MEE, PhD (India) and Doctor of Engineering (Japan). He has over 29 years of teaching, industrial and research experience. Currently, he is working as a Professor of Mechatronics Engineering, Macquarie University, Australia. His fields of interest include smart sensors and sensing technology, instrumentation techniques, wireless sensors and network, numerical field calculation, electromagnetics, etc. He has supervised over 40 postgraduate students and over 100 honors students. He has published over 450 papers in international journals and conference proceedings, authored 9 books and 40 book chapters and edited 18 conference proceedings. He has also edited 30 books and 30 journal special issues. He has organized over 20 international conferences as either General Chairs/co-chairs or Technical Program Chair. He is a Fellow of IEEE (USA), a Fellow of IET (UK), a Fellow of IETE (India), a Topical Editor of IEEE Sensors journal, and an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurements. He is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Sensors Council from 2017 to 2022. He is the Founding Chair of IEEE Sensors Council NSW Chapter.

Boby George received his M. Tech. and Ph. D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, Chennai, India, in 2003 and 2007, respectively. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Institute of Electrical Measurement and Measurement Signal Processing, Technical University of Graz, Graz, Austria from 2007 to 2010. Boby joined the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras in 2010, where he is currently a Professor. He is an associate editor of the IEEE Sensors Journal, IEEE TIM, IEEE Industrial Electronics. His areas of interests include sensors and electronic instrumentation.