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ArticleMicromachines2021

A Second-Generation Voltage-Conveyor-Based Interface for Ultrasonic PVDF Sensors.

Salvatore A Pullano, Antonino S Fiorillo, Gianluca Barile, Vincenzo Stornelli, Giuseppe Ferri

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Article in Micromachines, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 38% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Salvatore A PullanoDepartment of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University "Magna Græcia" of Catanzaro, 88100 Catanzaro, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-3391-1698
Antonino S FiorilloDepartment of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University "Magna Græcia" of Catanzaro, 88100 Catanzaro, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-6163-7804
Gianluca BarileDepartment of Industrial and Information Engineering and Economics (DIIEE), Faculty of Engineering, University of L'Aquila, 67100 L'Aquila, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-4937-0398
Vincenzo StornelliDepartment of Industrial and Information Engineering and Economics (DIIEE), Faculty of Engineering, University of L'Aquila, 67100 L'Aquila, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-7082-9429
Giuseppe FerriDepartment of Industrial and Information Engineering and Economics (DIIEE), Faculty of Engineering, University of L'Aquila, 67100 L'Aquila, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-8060-9558
University of L'Aquila · ITMagna Graecia University · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Exploiting the transmission and reception of low frequency ultrasounds in air is often associated with the innate echolocating abilities of some mammals, later emulated with sophisticated electronic systems, to obtain information about unstructured environments. Here, we present a novel approach for the reception of ultrasounds in air, which exploits a piezopolymer broadband sensor and an electronic interface based on a second-generation voltage conveyor (VCII). Taking advantage of its capability to manipulate both voltage and current signals, in this paper, we propose an extremely simple interface that presents a sensitivity level of about -100 dB, which is in line with commercially available references. The presented results are obtained without any filtration stage. The second-generation voltage conveyor active device is implemented through a commercially available AD844, with a supply voltage of ±15 V.

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PVDFsensor interfaceultrasonic transducervoltage conveyor

Identifiers

PMID33498360
PMCPMC7909449
OpenAlexW3121685461

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