Sensors & Test

Sensors/​Data Acquisition

This is your resource for developments in smart sensor systems and data acquisition. Browse technical briefs, articles, and white papers on advanced applications in transducer technologies, detector systems, data acquisition, and sensor-related technologies.

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Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The right sensors can cut machine building costs, improve flexibility, and boost customer satisfaction.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Combined muscles and sensors made from soft materials allow for adaptable robots.
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News: Medical
Novel biosensors allow the simultaneous study of both neuronal activity and transcription factor dynamics.
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Question of the Week: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Will Biosensors Be Used Effectively in Crowded Environments?
A team used to making pollutant-detection systems is adapting their technologies to spot coronavirus.
INSIDER Product: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Low-Power Sealed Laser Luxinar (Kingston Upon Hull, UK) has introduced the SR 08s for marking, scribing and kiss cutting applications requiring average rather than peak power. The new low-power sealed CO2 laser source targets...
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Products: Test & Measurement
The ADISRA SmartView 4.0 HMI allows builders to see what's going on in their machines.
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Articles: Aerospace
The last thing you probably do when a fly buzzes toward you is marvel at its graceful wing and body kinematics. But that’s exactly what researchers at Cornell University’s Itai Cohen Group do...
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
A team is exploring new materials for telecommunications and LIDAR applications.
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Products: Photonics/Optics
Photodetectors, ultrafast lasers, energy sensors, and more.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
Engineers have developed a new scanning technique inspired by the natural world that can detect corroding metals in oil and gas pipelines.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The nonlinear camera captures high-resolution images of the interior of solid objects using terahertz (THz) radiation.
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Articles: AR/AI
Xilinx is now applying AI to the in-cabin environment.
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Briefs: Data Acquisition
This fast, flexible tool allows researchers to quickly compare and prioritize strategies for converting biomass to fuels and products.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
This method uses fiber optic probes for measurement of semiconductors, optical coatings, magnetic read/write heads, and precision machines.
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Facility Focus: Sensors/Data Acquisition
This NASA center hosts the world’s greatest collection of wind tunnels and flight simulation facilities
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Bandages with integrated pH and temperature sensors, and electronically triggered drug release, improve healing.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
It can be used both in small, portable devices for field inspections and in very large detectors that use arrays of crystals.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A new way of making polymers adhere to surfaces may enable better biomedical sensors and implants.
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5 Ws: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A smart jumpsuit accurately measures the spontaneous and voluntary movement of infants
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
A highly sensitive, CMOS-compatible, broadband photodetector was created by tailoring material defects.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Protocol Improves Storage Efficiency and Output Speed of Computer Systems
This approach enables computer systems to retrieve data much faster.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
This diagnostic device allows doctors to detect cancer quickly from a droplet of blood or plasma.
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Briefs: Communications
This device could give doctors a new therapeutic option for treating patients with conditions such as heart failure.
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Briefs: Motion Control
The technique could be used to improve navigation for robots, drones, or pedestrians.
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Briefs: Software
Landers to small bodies such as comets and asteroids can use this program to estimate the terrain richness of the previously unmapped small body.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Applications include imaging, sensing, wireless communications, and medical treatments.
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Briefs: Medical
Mobile, Wearable EEG Device with Nanowire Sensors
This low-cost electroencephalogram (EEG) device provides research-grade signal quality.
Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Tech Briefs posed questions to 3D printing/AM industry execs, to get their views on issues like metal printing, new materials, and environmental sustainability.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Applications include optical data transfer, infrared and night-vision systems, environmental sensors, and breath analysis for medical diagnosis.
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