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INTRODUCTION
Figure 1.5 Price-performance indicators for ICs, sensors, and actuators
• The employment of well-established microtechnology
• The production of miniature sensors
• The production of less bulky and much lighter sensors
• The batch production of wafers for high volume
• The integration of processors
The UK marketplace for microsensors is diverse, as shown in Figure 1.6, and includes
processing plants - environment and medical. However, the largest sector of the world
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(rather than UK) sensor market is currently automotive; in 1997, the sales of pressure
Figure 1.6 Sensor market by application for the United Kingdom. From Gardner (1994)
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These figures relate to the sensor market and hence exclude the larger markets for disk and ink-jet printer
heads.
