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Transducers

You’ll find the essential developments in transducers technology including technical briefs, applications, and discussions covering piezoelectric, differential, and pressure transducers.

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INSIDER: Robotics, Automation & Control
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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INSIDER: Sensors/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: Electronics & Computers
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have invented a miniature superconducting thermometer with big potential applications, such as monitoring the...
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INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Researchers at Helmholtz Zentrum München and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed the world’s smallest ultrasound detector. Based on miniaturized...
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INSIDER: Medical
Researchers at the University of Houston report that they have designed and produced a smart electronic skin and a medical robotic hand capable of assessing vital diagnostic data...
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Products: Sensors/Data Acquisition
This month: Sensors that measure weather, proximity, pH, and more.
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Briefs: Energy
Researchers have created wearable technology to convert mechanical energy into electrical energy. It presents a step toward the practical realization of self-powered, human-integrated technologies.
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INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
What if drones and self-driving cars had the tingling “spidey senses” of Spider-Man? They might actually detect and avoid objects better because they would process...
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INSIDER: Medical
A new device developed by Stanford University researchers could make it easier for doctors to monitor the success of blood vessel surgery. The sensor monitors the flow of blood...
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Products: Imaging
Laptop Computers Eurocom, Nepean, ON, Canada offers Sky “C” Series laptop computers based on the Z370 Intel chipset and using CPU-upgrade-able, LGA1151 socket-based processors. They support up to 128 GB of...
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Researchers have developed a new ultrasound transducer that could dramatically lower the cost of ultrasound scanners to as little as $100. Conventional ultrasound scanners use piezoelectric crystals to...
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Many applications require detection of both very small and very large signals. High-gain detector amplifiers provide low noise, but are easily swamped by large signals. Logarithmic amplifiers provide a wide...
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Blog: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A reader asks our industry experts: "How good are the simulation models for automotive ADAS sensors?"
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Articles: Materials
ALUMINUM-POWERED ELECTRICITY GENERATION Aluminum has an incredibly high energy density — double that of gasoline and an order of magnitude greater than lithium-ion....
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Briefs: Medical
Magnetic sensors play a key role in a variety of applications, such as speed and position sensing in the automotive industry and in biomedical applications. The...
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Blog: Sensors/Data Acquisition
See five of the new products released this week at Sensors Expo 2018.
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Products: Test & Measurement
Rotary Position Sensors Novotechnik, U.S. (Southborough, MA) announced industrial and redundant channel industrial versions of the SP 2800 Series rotary position sensors. The industrial version is offered in standard electrical...
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Products: Sensors/Data Acquisition
CMOS Linear Image Sensor The S13774 from Hamamatsu Corporation (Hamamatsu City, Japan; Bridgewater, NJ), is a CMOS linear image sensor developed for industrial cameras that require high-speed scanning. The column-parallel readout...
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Products: Test & Measurement
Optical Design Software Lambda Research Corporation (Littleton, MA) announced the release of TracePro 7.8.3 and the Early Visibility release of its flagship TracePro software. Some of the new features and enhancements in TracePro...
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Products: Electronics & Computers
Product of the Month Fluke Corp., Everett, WA, introduced the Fluke 3560 FC Vibration Sensors and Fluke 3502 FC Gateway for equipment vibration analysis. The sensors enable remote capture of vibration data, and...
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Blog: Aerospace
During the historic Apollo 11 mission, the astronauts, mission control specialists, and back-room support staff did plenty of communicating. The University of Texas at Dallas launched a project to make all of the moon-mission audio accessible.
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INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A new, ultrathin film that is both transparent and highly conductive to electric current has been produced by a cheap and simple method devised by an international...
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Products: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Mouser Electronics, Mansfield, TX, offers TE Connectivity’s MEAS Microfused M5600 and UltraStable U5600 wireless pressure transducers. The 24-bit, analog-to-digital converter (ADC), pressure and temperature sensors...
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INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) researchers have developed a "Proximity Hat" that uses head pressure to inform users about their surroundings. The ultrasonic sensors, batteries,...
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INSIDER: Test & Measurement
Visual Microphone Identifies Structural Defects
A new technique from Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers estimates material properties of physical objects, such as stiffness and weight, from video.
INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Researchers Create Acoustic 'Image' of Thunder
Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) researchers have imaged the first acoustic signature of thunder, visually capturing the sound waves created by artificially triggered lightning.
News: Green Design & Manufacturing
Touted as possible first responders, insect cyborgs could be the research community's next big breakthrough. Researchers from Case Western Reserve University have discovered that an insect's internal...
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Blog: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Mine Detection
Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) Lincoln Laboratory developed a pinpointed sound beam that can detect buried land mines from a safe distance. Called a parametric acoustic array, the device is made up of ceramic transducers -- devices that emit a powerful narrow acoustic beam at ultrasonic frequencies. One...

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