ELEC 4709
Integrated Sensors
Overview of sensor technologies with emphasis on devices suitable for integration with silicon integrated circuits. Sensor design and fabrication principles including signal conditioning; discussion of 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)
- using KiCad with results verified by experimental measurements.
- Labs will include
- Making accurate measurements using common lab equipment
- Characterization of a piezoresistive pressure sensor
- Analysis and simulation of a pressure sensor
- Oscillometric blood pressure measurement
- Temperature sensor data acquisition
- Optical signal generation and sensing
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): ELEC 2507 and fourth-year standing in Engineering. Lectures three hours a week, laboratory and problem analysis three hours alternate weeks.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- Integrated Sensors ↗2025