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Analog Circuits and Systems for Voltage-Mode and Current-Mode Sensor Interfacing Applications

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In this chapter we give an introduction and classification on some examples of physical sensors (devices placed at the input of an instrumentation system that quantitatively measures a physical parameter, for example pressure, displacement or temperature) and chemical sensors (devices which are part of an instrumentation system that determines, typically, the concentration of a chemical substance, such as a toxic gas or oxygen), describing their working principles and main characteristic parameters.

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