Sensors/​Data Acquisition

Sensors

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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
“Smellicopter” uses a live moth antenna to avoid obstacles and seek out smells.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The stretchable electronics are more stable as they change shape, which could lead to next-generation sensors for healthcare applications.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The algorithms enable drones to quickly switch between hover and forward flight.
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Podcasts: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
In this episode of Here's an Idea, we look at a set of robots already helping out hospitals in the fight against COVID-19.
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INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Scientists around the world are working to develop electronic skins that attach to the body and monitor vital signs. These E-skins need to be comfortable, breathable, and flexible for everyday...
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INSIDER: Communications
Light-emitting diodes — LEDs — are important in many more applications than just illumination. These light sources are useful in microelectronics too. Smartphones, for example, can...
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INSIDER: Nanotechnology
A hacker can reproduce a circuit on a chip by discovering what key transistors are doing in a circuit — but not if the transistor “type” is...
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INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
A research team from National University of Singapore (NUS) has taken a first step towards improving the safety and precision of industrial robotic arms by developing a new range of...
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Special Reports: Test & Measurement
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Test & Measurement - February 2021
Sensors to search for ancient life on Mars...nano-thermometers that could revolutionize temperature measurement...a major advance in semiconductor testing. These are just a few of the technologies you'll read...

Special Reports: Photonics/Optics
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LIDAR Technology - February 2021
LIDAR sensors and systems are the "eyes" of ADAS and autonomous vehicles. Read about the latest advances in this compendium of articles from the editors of Automotive Engineering and Autonomous Vehicle...

Articles: Electronics & Computers
Energy is absorbed in the diamond through a process called inelastic scattering, which is used to generate electricity.
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Facility Focus: Wearables
Some of the technologies coming from the UT labs include COVID antibody tests, self-watering soil, and the "DRACO" robot.
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Articles: Internet of Things
Tech Briefs asks industry experts about cybersecurity, the cloud, wireless devices, and securing a remote workforce.
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Q&A: Energy
USC researchers found a way to use idle oil and gas wells for energy storage.
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Products: Electronics & Computers
Disconnect terminal blocks, oscillioscope probes, test modules, and more.
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Briefs: Wearables
A stretchable system can harvest energy from human breathing and motion.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The sensor is suitable for both overt and covert applications, and can detect multiple and variable targets.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
This integrated nanosensor is printed on a daughter board using 3D printing techniques.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
These nanomaterial strain sensors are ten times more sensitive when measuring minute movements compared to existing technology.
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Briefs: Materials
The stretchable sensor has applications in environmental monitoring and healthcare.
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NASA Spinoff: Sensors/Data Acquisition
With a technique first used at NASA, researchers are making glasses that can improve your concentration.
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This optical-based device measures position, velocity, and torque.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A smart fiber being tested on the International Space Station could be used to develop space dust telescopes and allow astronauts to feel through their pressurized suits.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
Applications include detection of explosives, navigation, and aerospace altitude sensing.
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This system can track the motion of the entire body with a small sensory network.
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Applications include aiding patients with impaired hand muscle strength and in manufacturing for operating tools for extended periods of time.
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INSIDER: Data Acquisition
The performance of flexible large-area organic photodiodes has advanced to the point that they can now offer advantages over conventional silicon photodiode...
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INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Researchers from the University of Bristol’s Quantum Engineering Technology Labs (QET Labs) and Université Côte d‘Azur have made a new miniaturized light...
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INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A phenomenon first detected in the solar wind may help solve a long-standing mystery about the sun: why the solar atmosphere is millions of degrees hotter than the...
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