sensors

GAMERS utilising the Wii U will be using advanced sensor solutions from STMicroelectronics and PNI.

Thermogenerators can deliver adequate power for sensors by converting ambient heat into power.

RESEARCHERS at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the University of Rochester have developed an ultrasensitive accelerometer which may enable the next generation of microsensors.

GE researchers are working with Ford and the University of Michigan to extend the battery life of electric vehicles.

SONY is investing 80 billion yen ($990 million AUD) in its Nagasaki Technology Centre to increase production of stacked CMOS image sensors.

A whole new class of biosensor that can detect exceptionally small traces of contaminants in liquids in just 40 minutes has been developed by a UNSW-led team of researchers.

PHYSICISTS from the University of Utah have developed an inexpensive, highly-accurate magnetic field sensor based on spintronic organic thin-film semiconductor technology.

By 2050, high-speed broadband will be the new ubiquitous utility; sensors, machine-to-machine communication and the human body as computer interfaces will transform the economy, states a new report.

SENSOR sales will more than double by 2016, driven by new embedded features, according to IC Insights.

ENGINEERS at the Case Western Reserve University engineers have designed and fabricated integrated amplifier circuits that operate at temperatures up to 600 degrees Celsius.

GLOBAL Kinetics has used $250,000 worth of funding from the Victorian Government to develop commercial prototypes of a wrist-worn sensor and reporting system for people with Parkinson’s disease.

WITH the current focus on climate, researchers at the US-based Sandia National Laboratories have now come up with a small air sampler which can cheaply and easily collect atmospheric samples.

RESEARCHERS from Edith Cowan University’s Centre for Communications Engineering Research (CCER) have installed a network of wireless fire monitoring sensors in bushland.

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