Biosensors & Transducers
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The official GTU curriculum for Biosensors & Transducers (subject code 2140306) as prescribed for Biomed · Semester 4 divides the course into 6 units, covering 56 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (2140306)Unit 1 BASICS OF SENSING MECHANISMS IN HUMAN BODY
- Study of biological sensors in human body and their basic mechanism of action - organization of nervous system- Study of various corpuscles like Pacinian - Chemoreceptors
- hot and cold receptors
Unit 2 BASICS OF TRANSDUCER AND MEASUREMENT SYSTEM
- Transducers- sensors: Basics
- Characteristics and Choice
- Primary sensing elements
- Measurements and generalized measurement system: Static characteristics- accuracy
- dynamic range
- Dynamic Characteristics – response time
- standards and AC/DC bridges
Unit 3 MEASUREMENT OF PHYSICAL QUANTITIES
- Transducers: Temperature transducers – thermos-resistive transducers
- chemical thermometry
- Thermal radiation sensor- detectors pyroelectric thermal sensors
- Radiation sensors- introduction
- basic characteristics
- photomultiplier cells
- photoconductive cells
- photo- resistive cells
- X-Ray & nuclear radiation sensors- ionization camber
- proportional counter
- scintillation detector
- solid state detector
- Biomedical applications: body temperature measurement
- respiration rate meter
- pulse oximeter
- Displacement transducers - potentiometric - resistive strain gauges - inductive displacement - capacitive displacement transducer
- Opto- Digital encoders
- Biomedical applications: goniometer
- Pressure transducer- Capacitive
- strain gauge- principle
- types- resistive
- Strain Gage Bridge
- Load Cell
- Proving Ring
- Cantilever Beam
- related design problems
- LVDT transducers-principle
- equivalent circuit
- linearity issues
- various secondary coil structure design
- design problems
Unit 4 CHEMICAL & BIOLOGICAL SENSORS
- Chemical Transducers: Transducers for the measurement of ions and dissolved gases
- Half-cell potential
- Reference electrodes - Hydrogen electrodes - silver-silver chloride electrodes- Calomel electrodes
- Measurement of pH- Glass pH electrodes
- Measurement of pO2, Measurement of pCO2 -catheter tip electrodes for the measurement of pO2 and pCO2
- conductivity measurement transducer
- Bio sensors: Ion exchange membrane electrodes- oxygen electrodes- CO2 electrodes enzyme electrode - construction - ISFET for glucose
- urea etc
- Electrolytic sensors - optical sensor - fiber optic sensors
- Microbial sensor
- Enzyme immobilization of chemical analyses
Unit 5 THIN FLIM SENSORS
- SAW transducer
- tactile sensor- grip (capacitive
- gas sensors
Unit 6 Smart sensors
- primary sensors
- data communication- standards for smart sensor interfacing
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