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  2. Capacitive sensing - Wikipedia

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    Capacitive sensing. In electrical engineering, capacitive sensing (sometimes capacitance sensing) is a technology, based on capacitive coupling, that can detect and measure anything that is conductive or has a dielectric constant different from air. Many types of sensors use capacitive sensing, including sensors to detect and measure proximity ...

  3. Capacitance probe - Wikipedia

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    Capacitance sensors (or Dielectric sensors) use capacitance to measure the dielectric permittivity of a surrounding medium. The configuration is like the neutron probe where an access tube made of PVC is installed in the soil; probes can also be modular (comb-like) and connected to a logger. The sensing head consists of an oscillator circuit ...

  4. Charge-coupled device - Wikipedia

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    A specially developed CCD in a wire-bonded package used for ultraviolet imaging. A charge-coupled device (CCD) is an integrated circuit containing an array of linked, or coupled, capacitors. Under the control of an external circuit, each capacitor can transfer its electric charge to a neighboring capacitor. CCD sensors are a major technology ...

  5. Quantum capacitance - Wikipedia

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    Quantum capacitance, [1] also known as chemical capacitance[2] and electrochemical capacitance , [3] was first theoretically introduced by Serge Luryi (1988), [1] and is defined as the variation of electrical charge with respect to the variation of electrochemical potential , i.e., . [3] In the simplest example, if you make a parallel-plate ...

  6. Sensor - Wikipedia

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    Different types of light sensors. 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.

  7. Capacitance - Wikipedia

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    Capacitance is proportional to the area of overlap and inversely proportional to the separation between conducting sheets. The closer the sheets are to each other, the greater the capacitance. An example is the capacitance of a capacitor constructed of two parallel plates both of area separated by a distance .

  8. Pressure measurement - Wikipedia

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    This is the most commonly employed sensing technology for general purpose pressure measurement. Capacitive: Uses a diaphragm and pressure cavity to create a variable capacitor to detect strain due to applied pressure, capacitance decreasing as pressure deforms the diaphragm. Common technologies use metal, ceramic, and silicon diaphragms.

  9. Level sensor - Wikipedia

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    Level sensor. Level sensors detect the level of liquids and other fluids and fluidized solids, including slurries, granular materials, and powders that exhibit an upper free surface. Substances that flow become essentially horizontal in their containers (or other physical boundaries) because of gravity whereas most bulk solids pile at an angle ...