Such change is so small that detecting it unambiguously is challenging, and has become the primary task for the application design. For the surface capacitive sensor, the sensor IC measures the ...

Capacitive sensing addresses all the limitations of other sensor technologies ... In cases where the design of the battery position, printed circuit board (PCB) ground and mechanical structure is ...

There are several ways to measure capacitive sensors. With some careful design and in appropriate capacitance ranges, traditional timer circuits may suffice. For low capacitance values and high ...

Although a capacitive sensor can be as simple as a dedicated area on a printed-circuit board ... since ground planes are a standard design solution. 6. The effects of PCB parasitics (a) on ...

Most proximity sensors use ... plates and raises the capacitance. The higher capacitance boosts the amplitude of the oscillations being measured by a level-detection circuit.

Recently, however, more and more end-users have raised questions about the principles behind the devices' design ... critical to understanding how the capacitive voltage sensor works. Let's return to ...

Figure 1: Capacitive Delta Sigma Circuit The circuit can be simplified by considering the sensor capacitance being replaced by ... The Capacitive Sense parameters used by the PSoC design tools are the ...

In a way, the magic of a soil moisture sensor’s functionality boils down to a simple RC circuit ... sensor design. At its heart, a moisture sensor measures how quickly (or slowly) a capacitor ...

In a paper recently published in the journal Advanced Material Technologies, researchers prepared a complete textile woven capacitive sensor to present the viability of interdigitated sensors ...

Capacitive touch switches combine to simulate an analog control. In the last Sensor Sense we looked at ... value to trigger the output of the touch circuit. An application-specific integrated ...