EGEN 5303
Silicon Sensors
Overview of sensor technologies with emphasis on devices suitable for integration with silicon integrated circuits. Sensor design and signal conditioning. Sensor circuitry and adaptations for automotive, biomedical, and other instrumentation applications.
2025
Topics
- Measurement principles; uncertainty, precision and accuracy
- Signals and interfaces
- Fabrication technologies for silicon ICs and sensors; micromachining
- Mechanical sensors (strain and pressure)
- Temperature sensors
- Sensors for visible and infrared radiation, including imagers
- Sensors for ionizing radiation (x-rays, gamma rays, etc.)
- Magnetic sensors
- Chemical sensors
- Selected topics (to be determined)
- Project Deliverables
- Project deliverables will be described in a separate document and will include
- Application proposal
- Engineering requirements document
- Design strategy proposal
- Detailed design
- Final report and presentation
- engineering managers.
- Health and Safety
Readings
- Handbook of Modern Sensors, 4th Edition, Jacob Fraden, Springer 2010, ISBN 978-1-4419-6465-6 Electronic resource through Carleton Library
Prerequisites & course information
Prerequisite(s): enrolment in the M.Eng.- Engineering Practice program.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- Sensor Systems ↗2025