Session 27 overview: Physical sensors: Imagers, MEMS, medical and displays subcommittee

This session presents recent achievements in the area of inertial, pressure, capacitance, magnetic, and temperature sensors. The first 3 papers are pushing power consumption, dynamic range, and drift of inertial sensors, enabling electronic stability control for new levels safety in the automotive sector and always-on navigation in mobile consumer devices. These presentations are followed by a fully integrated, small-form-factor tire pressure sensor. An innovative, energy-efficient read-out circuit for resonant sensors is followed by 2 presentations on energy- and area-efficient capacitance-to-digital converters. The session concludes with papers reporting a thermal-diffusivity-based temperature sensor for thermal monitoring, and a fluxgate-based magnetic-to-digital converter for contactless current sensing.