First published in Great Britain and the United States in 2007 by ISTE Ltd

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Modern sensors handbook/edited by Pavel Ripka, Alois Tipek.   p. cm.

TA165.M585 2007

681'.2--dc22

2007003344

British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library

ISBN 13: 978-1-905209-66-8

Printed and bound in Great Britain by Antony Rowe Ltd, Chippenham, Wiltshire.

List of Authors

Stanislav ?ado works as a Professor at the Department of Measurement, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague.