Principles of Electronic Instrumentation

Stressing the physical principles and their practical implementation - rather than mathematical and technical detail - this second edition aims to reflect the large number of technical developments that have taken place in the microelectronic device industry since 1981. The book is essentially a collection of topics in electronics and physics which are the basis of the modern electronic instrumentation used in physical, chemical, biological and medical research. Descriptions of specific circuits have been avoided because of the short market lifetime of most instruments, and the "electronic building blocks" approach has been adopted instead so that any instrument can be analysed on a functional basis.

Table of Contents:
Part 1 Modern semiconductor devices: physical basis of semiconductor device operation; single junction devices; optoelectronic devices and displays; bulk semiconductor mechanisms. Part 2 Microelectrical device technology: the planar technique; preparation of a pure silicon slice and controlled oxidation; preparation of masks and photolithography; selective doping; thin-film deposition, isolation, interconnection and encapsulation; microcircuit functions and limits of circuit integration. Part 3 Linear circuit design and building blocks of analogue circuiting: black box representation; equivalent circuits; interrelation between the various parameters; analysis of commonly used linear circuits; high frequency circuits in general; large - signal circuit design criteria; building blocks of analogue circuiting. Part 4 Logic design and building blocks of digital circuiting: Boolean algebra and the physical implementation of its concepts; minimisation of Boolean expressions; binary numbers and codes; digital IC terminology; families of digital IC's; combinational logic circuits and some commonly used MSI functional circuits assemblies; sequential logic systems; monastable circuits and clock pulse generators; digital memories; microprocessors. Part 5 Principles of digital-to-analogue converters and analogue-to-digital converters: digital to analogue - types of converters - converter terminology - conversion with magnitude and sign; analogue to digital - types of converters - converter terminology; appropriate choice of converters for certain applications. Part 6 Feedback theory and its applications: basic mathematical concepts in feedback theory; flow diagrams and linear feedback systems; feedback and its consequences; instability of linear feedback systems; stabilisation techniques; practical applications. Part 7 Transducers: transducer terminology; types of transducers; conversion of optical signals into electrical ones; modern digital transducers. Part 8 Frequency analysis: some properties of Fourier transforms and their applications; spectral representation of signals; some statistical techniques in signal analysis; 2-transforms and sampled signals; the time domain and frequency domain; convultion, correlation and power spectra of waveforms; sampling and reconstitution of electronic signals; filters; references. Part 9 Noise: sources of fundamental noise; environmental noise - sources and minimisation; noise measurements; some commonly encountered experimental situations. Part 10 Principles of signal recovery: basic mathematical concepts and their physical implementation; filtering; signal recovery by autocorrelation; phase-sensitive detection; signal recovery by autocorrelation; multipoint correlation by digital technique; warehouse recovery; multichannel averager; the "box-car" detector; computer-aided signal recovery.