Session 10 overview: Sensor systems: IMMD subcommittee

The session describes advances in sensor systems covering topics of sensors for inertial navigation, capacitive touch and stylus systems, ultrasound and bolometers. The first paper presents a frequency-modulated gyroscope using rate chopping to reject drift. The second paper describes a personal inertial navigation system for GPS-denied environments. The third paper presents a capacitive touch system with palm rejection functionality. The fourth paper presents a highly noise-immune stylus analog front-end that supports pen pressure for both passive electrically coupled resonance (ECR) and active styluses. The fifth paper demonstrates a pitch-matched front-end ASIC that realizes subarray beamforming and digitization for ultrasound imaging. The sixth paper demonstrates a 64-channel front-end ASIC for intracardiac echocardiography (ICE) catheters. The seventh paper presents a 2×2 transformer-based magnetic sensor array, which can detect magnetic nanoparticles with better than 0.3ppm accuracy. Finally, the eighth paper presents a low-cost 80×60-pixel thermal infrared imager featuring 100mK temperature resolution.