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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5 Ws: Electronics & Computers
Learn about the Pedestrian Audio Wearable System (PAWS), a low-cost, headset-based, wearable platform.
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Briefs: Aerospace
The sensor makes it easier to detect and manage ice accumulation on aircraft wings.
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Facility Focus: Test & Measurement
The Army Test and Evaluation Command provides essential information to acquisition decision-makers and commanders.
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Products: Photonics/Optics
Thermal cameras, testing software, an ion air knife, and more.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
This vibrometer has uses in analyzing spasms in humans, as a breath analyzer for diagnosis of cancer and other diseases, and as a preventative healthcare sensor.
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Briefs: Medical
Blood Test Detects Multiple Types of Cancer
The test can screen for numerous types of cancer with a high degree of accuracy.
Briefs: Materials
These materials can be used in aerospace vehicles, automobiles, clothing, helmets, and chemical sensors.
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Briefs: Medical
The technology could enable remote control of drug delivery, sensing, and other medical applications.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Magnetic Shield Using Proximity Coupled, Spatially Varying Superconducting Order Parameters
This magnetic shielding design can be easily incorporated into a wide range of electronic sensing applications.
Application Briefs: Aerospace
Beta Technologies is putting their Electrical Vertical Takeoff and Landing aircraft (eVTOL) prototype through the wringer.
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Briefs: Wearables
A mobile, wearable device the size of a Band-Aid could allow babies to leave the hospital and be monitored from home.
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Products: Test & Measurement
This month: Sensors that measure weather, proximity, pH, and more.
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Briefs: Wearables
Drones, smartphones, and sensors could provide a lifeline to the world’s growing elderly population at risk of falls.
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Application Briefs: Communications
Facility managers, real estate owners, as well as commercial and industrial businesses are looking to deploy IoT.
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Articles: Communications
To clear up some of the confusion about what the industry means when it says 5G, here’s a guide to what it’s all about.
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Application Briefs: Transportation
An interview with Mike Horton, CTO of ACEINNA, Inc. (Boston, MA).
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Articles: Test & Measurement
Increase battery life and reduce data loads with an analog-first processing architecture.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
A wireless sensor small enough to be implanted in the blood vessels of the human brain could help clinicians evaluate the healing of aneurysms.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
Researchers have developed new nanoscale technology to image and measure more of the stresses and strains on materials under high pressures.
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Articles: Test & Measurement
There are longwave, midwave, and shortwave camera systems—each with its own advantages for specific industries and uses.
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Technology Leaders: Test & Measurement
Vision-based convolutional neural network system detects phone usage, eating, and drinking.
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Application Briefs: Transportation
Anand Gopalan, CEO of Velodyne Lidar, Inc., discusses lidar software for ADAS and autonomous vehicles
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Products: Motion Control
Perovskites Goodfellow (Coraopolis, PA) recently announced a new range of perovskites, a group of materials that demonstrate great potential for optoelectronic applications. Perovskites have a unique and versatile crystal...
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Blog: Photonics/Optics
Editor Bruce A. Bennett shares his observations from SPIE Photonics West, including the emergence of LiDAR.
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Blog: Photonics/Optics
See what caught Bruce A. Bennett's eye during Day 1 of Photonics West 2020 in San Francisco.
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INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A team of engineers at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has boosted the performance of its previously developed 3D inductor technology by adding as much as three orders...
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INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
Nagoya University scientists have succeeded in designing a laser diode that emits deep-ultraviolet light. It emits the world's shortest lasing wavelength, at 271.8 nanometers, under pulsed electric current...
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INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Scientists at Linköping University (Linköping, Sweden) have described a method to manufacture transistors using gallium nitride and aluminum nitride that have the ability to withstand voltages as high...
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INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
To further shrink electronic devices and to lower energy consumption, the semiconductor industry is interested in using 2D materials, but manufacturers need a quick...
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