Product Description: This volume covers the typical areas of sensors and microsystems, such as chemical and biological sensors, physical sensors, optical sensors and micromechanics. A section of the book is devoted to advanced sensor applications. There is also a focus on the development of sensors for the human body, and the relationship between human bodies and sensor systems...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This text discusses the basis of fundamental properties of nanostructured materials and provides an introduction to more specialized current topics, such as: materials preparation; structural characterization; thermodynamic aspects; and mechanical, optical, electrical and magnetic properties...read more