An electrical sensor is a device or integrated circuit that detects a specific physical parameter and converts it to an electrical signal. The output signal of the electrical sensor is processed and used to provide a measurement or to trigger an action. Examples include environmental sensors for measuring temperature or humidity and bio sensors for measuring physiological indicators such as core temperature or heart rate.

Maxim's large selection of temperature sensor ICs support a wide variety of designs for both local and remote temperature measurement. These electric sensor ICs provide high-accuracy, low-power performance with real-time protection, robust interfaces, and compact packaging for use in industrial, automotive, consumer, data center and communications applications. Maxim's growing portfolio of bio sensors provide high-accuracy measurement of body vital signs. These highly integrated bio sensor ICs offer low power operation in small packages for accurate body vital measurements such as temperature, heart health, and bio potential for use in mobile phones, wearable devices and clinical health patches.

Temperature Sensors ICs

A temperature sensor detects the temperature of an object or of its environment and converts the reading into an electrical signal. Common types of temperature sensors include thermocouples, resistance temperature detectors (RTDs), thermistors, local temp sensor ICs, and remote thermal diode temperature sensor ICs. Thermocouples, RTDs, and thermistors are sensing elements with electrical properties that vary predictably with temperature. Local temperature sensor ICs utilize the physical properties of transistors on the die as the sensing element. Clinical grade temp sensors meet the clinical thermometry specification of the ASTM E1112 for accuracy. Remote thermal diode temperature sensors employ an external bipolar transistor as the sensing element and include all the signal conditioning circuitry necessary to measure temperature using one or more external transistors.

Maxim's wide selection of silicon-based temperature sensor ICs support a variety of applications including medical, industrial, data center, and mobile. In addition to temperature sensors, we offer fan controllers and themostat ICs. Maxim's fan controller ICs monitor and control fan speeds in system cooling applications. Maxim's thermostat ICs measure temperature and provide a power switch output for temperature-based monitoring and control applications. Additional industry-leading features include:

Temp sensors with accuracy up to ±0.5℃

Fan controllers with temp sensing, voltage monitoring and GPIO

Remote temperature sensors with up to 7 channels

Clinical grade temperature sensor with ±0.1°C accuracy

Healthcare Sensor ICs

Biopotential, Electrochemical, Optical, and Temperature Sensors for Wearable, Fitness, and Medical Applications

Healthcare sensor ICs use current or optics to sense the human body’s vital signs. Typically, these biosensors condition the signal and send it to a microprocessor for storage, calculation, or display by a health monitoring device.

Maxim's healthcare sensor solutions are ideal for portable medical and wellness applications, as well as wearable medical and fitness applications. Low-power operation fosters longer battery life. These highly integrated sensor ICs reduce the total solution chip count by including analog front-ends (AFEs), ADCs, and ESD/EMI protection circuitry with key features such as:

Clinical-grade performance for temperature and ECG measurements

High dynamic range AFEs with low SNR

Complete optical modules for a variety of applications

Built-in algorithms

Do you know more about Maxim's product uses, technical documents, and solutions related to Sensors? Then quickly get in touch with Maxim Integrated Distributor - NHE!