Introduction to Sensor and Actuator devices: the overall sensors characteristics, regardless its physical nature (4 hours lectures).
- Physical principles of sensing: resistance and capacitance changes, Piezoelectric effect, Pyroelectric effect, Hall effect, Seebeck and Peltier effects (8 hours lectures + 6 hours laboratory).
- Optoelectronic sensors and components (2 hours lectures).
- Optical Fiber sensors (6 hours lectures + 6 hours laboratory.). Distributed and concentrate sensors. Fiber Bragg gratings (FBG): working principle and fabrication. Long period grating sensors.
- CCD and CMOS image sensors (2 hours lectures).
- Temperature sensors (2 hours lectures + 4 hours laboratory): RTD, thermistors,
thermocouples and IC sensors.
- Occupancy and Motion Detectors (2 hours lectures): Ultrasonic sensors and microwave motion detectors, capacitive sensors, optoelectronic motion detectors.
- Touch sensors, pressure sensors and touchscreen (2 ore di lezione).
- Physical sensors in medicine. Introduction to chemical and biosensors (2 hours lectures + 2 hours laboratory).