Article Index – 2000
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December 2000
Unprecedented
Photoelectric Beam Patterns
The Future of Network Sensors
A Single-Chip Electrostatic Proximity Sensor
Building a Smart Prosthetic Leg
Occupant Position Sensing
Commercialization of RF MEMS
Guidelines for Optimum Results with Thermally Conductive Paste or Liquid Materials
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November 2000
Ground Zero of the Next Big Thing
An Interference-Based Incremental Optical Encoder
Making Ethernet Work in Real Time
Smart Infrared temperature Sensors: Making Sense of a New Generation
Networking Machines
Evaluating DMM Specification
Two-Wire, Loop-Powered Digital Sensing
Big System Insurance in Small Packages
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October 2000
A Smarter Way
Noncontact Displacement Sensors in Automotive Manufacture
A Short Guide to Measurement Uncertainty
Uncertainty Analysis in Pitot Static Pneumatic Mass Flow Measurements
An Innovative Passive Solid-State Magnetic Sensor
The Principles of Level Measurement
Measuring Individual Wheel Noise
Acoustic Wave Technology Sensors
Getting Control Through CAN
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September 2000
Watts Up?
Temperature Measurement
Designing the Embedded Temperature Circuit to Meet the System’s Requirements
High-Precision Ambient Temperature Measurement for a Climatological Database
An Introduction to Regression Analysis
Using Ultrasonic Anemometers in Urban and Topographical Climatology Research
Bringing Nondispersive IR Spectroscopic Gas Sensors to the Mass Market
Where Wireless Sensor Communications and the Internet Meet
Neodymium-Iron-Boron Magnets: Flexibility in Sensor Design
A High-Precision Piezoresistive Flow Sensor for Microdosing Applications
Is Linux in Your Future?
Isolation—Is Your Measurement System Safe?
What every designer must know about motion control
Measuring Inclination for Instrumented Parachute Drops: A Work in Progress
Digital Rotor Telemetry
The Art of Fabricating a Rotational Accelerometer
Controlling Resonance in Step Motor Systems
Measuring Two Machine Axes from One Laser Source
Motion Control Systems: Basics Every Designer Must Know
Feedback Loop
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August 2000
One Where-It’s-At Workshop
Sensors That Can Take the Heat, Part 3: Design Techniques for High-Temperature Applications
A Microvolume Thermal Conductivity Detector for Online Gas Analysis
Protein-Based Thin Films: A New High-TCR Material
The Cyranose Chemical Vapor Analyzer
A 1-Wire Humidity Sensor
Time-Multiplexed Deep Etching
Mass Flow Controllers Enter the Mainstream
Designing an IEEE 1451.2–Compliant Transducer
COM Talk
The Optimum Buffer-ADC Combination
Bluetooth
Wireless Connectivity—The Year in Review
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July 2000
The New MEMS and Their Killer Apps
Metrology for MEMS Manufacturing
The Principles of Chilled Mirror Hygrometry
Sensors That Can Take the Heat, Part 2: Support Electronics and Materials Used in Making High-Temperature-Tolerant Circuits
Improving the MEMS Pressure Sensor
Measuring with Light, Part 4: Sensor and Communications Component Compatibilities
The Magic of Digital Filters
Best of sensors Expo Awards
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June 2000
Sensors That Can Take the Heat, Part 1: Opening the High-Temperature Toolbox
The Next Generation of Measurements
ADCs for Simultaneous Sampling
A Nonvolatile Solid-State Recorder for 100,000 g Environments
Measuring with Light, Part 3: Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexed Fiber-Optic Communications
Verifying Aircraft Assembly with Real-Time Digital Photogrammetry
Taking Optical Probes into Harsh Environments
Solving Cooling Fan Problems with a Smart Sensor
Handheld Instruments—The Shirt-Pocket Revolution
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MAY 2000
Measuring with Light, Part 2: Fiber-Optic Sensing—From Theory to Practice
Getting the Most out of Strain Gauge Load Cells
Noncontact Full-Field Strain Measurement with 3D ESPI
Lubricants Extend the Life of Sensor
The Universal Current Sensor
The Sensor Explosion and Automotive Control Systems
A Pressure Sensor for a Smart Barometer
Measuring Oxygen Purity with a Micro-Fuel Cell Sensor
Wireless Sensor Network Topologies
Simplified Electrochemical Diagnostics and Asset Management
Motion Control Special Section
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APRIL 2000
When Active Means Passive
Machine Vision Optics
Online Inspection for Hidden Internal Defects
Protecting Instrumentation Amplifiers
Applications of Signal Isolation
Using Pressure Transducers to Monitor Oil Burners and Tank Levels
Machine Vision and Flexible Manufacturing
The Active Column Sensor CMOS Imager-Giving Better Images for less
Intelligent Wireless Sensors for Industrial Manufacturing
Measuring with Light, Part 1: The Physics of Fiber Optics
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MARCH 2000
IVI Aims to Improve Test System Development
5 Ways to Shave Test Time
The Channel Photomultiplier and Its Operation
A New Sensor ASIC for Changing Magnetic Fields
Ultrasonics on the Automotive Assembly Line
Instrumenting Aircraft for Retrofit Testing
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FEBRUARY 2000
Sold Searching
MEMS Reshapes Ultrasonic Sensing
Two Approaches to Measuring Acceleration
An Advanced Steering Wheel Sensor
Get the Most out of Your Data Recorder with the Right Anti-Aliasing Filter
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JANUARY 2000
A Novel, Media-Compatible Pressure Sensor for Automotive Applications
Building a More Perfect Union: Combining Thermistors and High-Resolution 
A/D Converters
Temperature Sensor ICs Simplify Designs
Choosing and Using a Temperature Sensor
Area Monitoring of Hazardous Gases and Vapors
Semiconductor-Based Pressure Sensors for Semiconductor Fabrication
An Outcome-Based Calibration System
Less Than Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Internet Business
An Intrinsically Safe Position Transmitter
IEEE-1451.2 Update
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