ECTS
9 credits
Training structure
Faculty of Science
Description
Acquire theoretical and practical knowledge in the field of thermal, mechanical, acoustic, and optical sensors. Implement these sensors within an automated instrumentation chain.
Objectives
By the end of this course, students will have skills in:
1°/ Basic characteristics of sensors:
- characterization of physical sensors and their conditioning circuits, metrological characteristics of the measurement chain
-review of sensor characteristics (linearity, sensitivity, resolution, etc.) and associated electronic circuits.
- Environmental sensors (temperature, humidity)
- strain sensors and their readout circuits
- Microsensors and MEMS (MicroElectroMechanical Systems)
2°/ Acoustic sensors
- Elasticity and piezoelectricity of materials
- Static sensors and actuators: force, displacement, electrical voltage.
- Vibrating sensors. Resonance conditions;. Equivalent electrical diagrams
- Signal processing in acoustics. Resonance. Time-frequency. Impedance matching. Generation and detection electronics.
- Transducers and imaging. Design and performance; Ultrasound. Focusing in far and near fields; Acoustic imaging;
3°/ Thermal sensors
- Photometric measurements, infrared radiometric chain
- Figures of merit, NEP, and detectivity of thermal detectors: bolometers, thermopiles, pyroelectric sensors
4°/ Optical sensors for night vision imaging
- Infrared optical detectors and thermal contrast infrared imaging (IR imaging).
- Visible optical detectors and residual light amplification imaging (RLI imaging).
- Fusion Sensors
Laboratory: clean room manufacturing and characterization of thermal microsensors and infrared photodiodes; Implementation of sensors within a measurement chain. Use of a latest-generation thermal camera to perform thermography measurements in the industrial field.
Mandatory prerequisites
Candidates must have a solid academic background in the general fields of microelectronics, semiconductor physics, and/or physics.
Recommended prerequisites:
Microelectronics, semiconductor physics, and/or physics
Knowledge assessment
Written 80%, Oral/Practical 20%
Additional information
CM: 60 hours
Practical work: 3 p.m.