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A Comparative Analysis of Thermal Flow Sensing in Biomedical Applications

Khan et al., 2016

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16781195556523864948
Author
Khan B
Ahmed S
Kakkar V
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arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.03603

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Flow sensors have diverse applications in the field of biomedical engineering and also in industries. Micromachining of flow sensors has accomplished a new goal when it comes to miniaturization. Due to the scaling in dimensions, power consumption, mass cost, sensitivity …
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