Differential current amplifier

The process flow for the fabrication of the microfluidic system includes a single or double metallization layer, a polymer layer for the fluidic system, and a glass sealing cap. There have been some efforts during fabrication to minimize the thermal-dissipation loss. The temperature difference between the two points where the sensors are located is measured with a differential current amplifier, and the flow rate is calibrated. At low flow rates, the temperature difference is a linear function of the flow rate as in Fig. 6. Measurements without heat insulation decrease the sensitivity of the flow sensor and increase the lower limit of flow rate detection. The distance between the heater and the sensors is optimized for the maximum differential temperature. 

Alternating-current amplifiers generally do not perform well at low frequencies (< 10 Hz) and exhibit signal phase shift or signal differentiation. High-frequency response must be selected so that risetime is not compromised for the signals being processed. On the other hand, ac amplifiers provide stable operation, are relatively free from baseline drift, and require much less calibration than dc amplifiers. 

Rectifiers working according to the control diagram in Fig. 8-6 are used for anodic corrosion protection in passivatable systems that go spontaneously from the passive to the active state when the protection current is switched off [12]. The predetermined nominal voltage between reference electrode and protected object is compared with the actual voltage f/j in a differential display unit D. The difference AU = is amplified in a voltage amplifier SV to VqAU. This... 

A circuit that uses a differential amplifier to maintain constant membrane potential by electronically balancing the ion channel current. This method allows the experimenter to analyze action potentials of excitable membranes resulting from an initial transient rise in sodium ion permeability followed by a transient rise in potassium ion permeability The technique is especially valuable for studying kinetic properties of voltage-gated channels as well as voltage-dependent channels. See Membrane Potential Patch Clamp Methods... 

Real operational amplifier (compliance limitations, offset current and voltage) Voltage follower Follower with gain Inverter Integrator Differentiator Comparators... 

Differential staircase voltammetry — In this variation of staircase - voltammetry the current is sampled twice on each tread of the staircase potential-time waveform. The difference between the two currents sampled on the same step is amplified and recorded as a function of the... 

A potentiostat as a laboratory device is normally equipped with further features such as monitoring of the -> reference electrode, current detection by current-to-voltage-converters, or differential amplifiers, pulse form generators, displays of current and potential, and computer interfaces. See also - IRU potential drop and - IR drop compensation, - Randles. 

A photoinduced discharge apparatus includes a corona charging unit, an exposure system, and a noncontacting voltmeter. A grid is usually positioned between the corona wires and the sample to control the corona current. The apparatus is normally provided with a beam splitter and radiometer. The surface potentials are determined by a capacitively coupled probe and FET amplifier. The time derivative of the voltage can be obtained electronically or by numerical differentiation on a computer. When a time resolution greater than 10 ms is adequate, commercial voltmeters, for example, Monroe Electronics Isoprobe or Trek Electrostatic voltmeters, can be used. These are feedback devices, based... 

Brown and Skrebowski [37] first suggested the use of x-rays for particle size analysis and this resulted in the ICl x-ray sedimentometer [38,39]. In this instrument, a system is used in which the difference in intensity of an x-ray beam that has passed through the suspension in one half of a twin sedimentation tank, and the intensity of a reference beam which has passed through an equal thickness of clear liquid in the other half, produces an inbalance in the current produced in a differential ionization chamber. This eliminates errors due to the instability of the total output of the source, but assumes a good stability in the beam direction. Since this is not the case, the instrument suffers from zero drift that affects the results. The 18 keV radiation is produced by a water-cooled x-ray tube and monitored by the ionization chamber. This chamber measures the difference in x-ray intensity in the form of an electric current that is amplified and displayed on a pen recorder. The intensity is taken as directly proportional to the powder concentration in the beam. The sedimentation curve is converted to a cumulative percentage frequency using this proportionality and Stokes equation. 

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