Keyword: MEMs

Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Omnitron Sensors Co-founder and CEO Eric Aguilar has developed a key component for LiDARs featured in autonomous vehicles, based on his experience working with LiDAR in a variety of past roles with some of the world’s largest technology providers and manufacturers.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
In people with epilepsy, seizure-alert dogs can smell small changes in body chemistry and warn of an impending seizure an hour or more before it occurs. Inspired by this feat of nature, a team of researchers has developed a way to replicate that ability with technology.
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Briefs: Green Design & Manufacturing
To improve efficiency, it is necessary to characterize and reduce flow separation on curved surfaces.
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INSIDER: Materials

Extreme environments in several critical industries — aerospace, energy, transportation, and defense — require sensors to measure and monitor numerous factors...

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Briefs: Connectivity
A new study suggests mobile data collected while traveling over bridges could help evaluate their integrity.
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Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
With advancements in microfabrication techniques, MEMS devices have become more readily available for many commercial applications.
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Special Reports: Photonics/Optics
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Optics & Photonics Innovations - April 2023

Demand for satellite communications bandwidth is quickly outstripping supply. The solution: optical, laser-based technologies. Read all about it – and other major photonics advances – in this...

Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
To improve efficiency, it is necessary to characterize and reduce flow separation on curved surfaces.
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Products: Sensors/Data Acquisition
New products for February 2023, including stainless-steel specialty inductive proximity sensors, hermetically sealed position sensors, and more.
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Briefs: Data Acquisition
A new study suggests mobile data collected while traveling over bridges could help evaluate their integrity.
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Application Briefs: Test & Measurement
This measurement technique is particularly useful for, but not limited to, samples containing organic compounds.
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Products: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
See what's new on the market, including a pressure transmitter, a new pressure instrument, new confocal controller, and more.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Potential uses include MEMS accelerometers, vibration monitoring, and other precision motion control applications.
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5 Ws: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A team at KTH Royal Institute of Technology has developed a new 3D printing technique that could be used to produce customized chip-based microelectromechanical systems (MEMS).
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Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping

This article is a marked departure from my annual reporting on the past year’s performance of the health of the MEMS industry vis-à-vis my MEMS Industry Commercialization Report Card. [1] ...

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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition

Through the use of magnetic fields, scientists have developed an electronic sensor that can simultaneously process both touchless and tactile stimuli. Prior attempts have so far failed to combine these functions...

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INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition

High-resolution solid-state lidar using an array of MEMS switches will reduce its cost to match that of inexpensive, chip-based cameras and radar systems — removing a major barrier...

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Blog: Electronics & Computers
The wire harness is changing as vehicles become “computers on wheels.” A reader asks how electrification impacts the wiring harness.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Mechanical control and modulation of light on a silicon chip could enhance LiDAR.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Potential uses include MEMS accelerometers, vibration monitoring, and other precision motion control applications.
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Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
See leading manufacturers in a variety of sensor topic areas, including radar and encoders.
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Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Learn how to outfit your equipment with sensors.
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Application Briefs: Wearables
Pellistor/Catalytic Bead (CB) sensors can respond to flammable gases such as hydrogen, oxygen, hydrogen sulfide, methane, butane, propane, and carbon monoxide.
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Podcasts: Manufacturing & Prototyping
This episode of our Tech Briefs podcast series Here’s an Idea™ explores a variety of new-and-improved hearing aids, from $5 “do-it-yourself” devices to advanced systems that monitor brain waves.
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Products: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Encoders, quick disconnects, automation systems, and more.
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Application Briefs: Data Acquisition
Editor Ed Brown explores what’s ahead for MEMS automobile navigation systems.
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Products: Sensors/Data Acquisition
High-precision medical sensors, battery-cell mappers, signal conditioners, and more.
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Application Briefs: Imaging

Over the last 75 years, sensors have played an increasingly significant part in the advancement of medicine.

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Application Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The MPS Flammable Gas Sensor can detect and identify the concentrations of 12 of the most common combustible gases,
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