Sensor

Medical Sensors Design Conference

June 24, 2018

Rapid advances in medical technology, and the increasing need to store and rapidly access data are making sensors an important part of the medical landscape. At the Medical Sensors Design Conference June 25 through 26 at the McEnery [more...]

Low-Cost Plastic Sensors Could Monitor a Range of Health Conditions

June 24, 2018

A low-cost sensor made from semiconducting plastic could be used to diagnose or monitor a wide range of health conditions, such as surgical complications or neurodegenerative diseases. (Image Credit: KAUST) An international team of [more...]

Low-cost Wearables Manufactured by Hybrid 3D Printing

September 10, 2017

A complete hybrid 3D-printed device flexes and conforms to the body’s shap (Image credit: Alex Valentine, Lori Sanders and Human skin must flex and stretch to accommodate the body’s every move. Anything worn tight on the body [more...]

Engineers Find Better Way to Detect Nanoparticles

August 16, 2017

Two light scatterers, represented by the blue spheres, are utilized to tune the sensors to exceptional points, at which light propagates in one direction. (Image: W. Chen and L. Yang) Credit: Washington University in St. Louis It’s long [more...]

UBC Engineers Invent 3D-printed Device to Monitor Water Quality

August 1, 2017

UBC researchers say measuring water quality continuously is vital in ensuring people’s drinking water is safe (Image credit: WANYEE LI/METRO) Engineers at the University of British Okanagan have designed a 3D-printed device that [more...]

Optofluidics 2017

July 25, 2017

Optofluidics 2017 continues a series of Conferences that provide a forum to promote scientific exchange and foster closer networks and collaborative ties between leading international optics and micro/nanofluidics researchers across [more...]

New Implantable Biosensor Could Monitor Cell-Level Changes in Patients

June 24, 2017

The idea behind Efferent Labs – implanting a device containing living cells into the body to act as a biologic sensor – has attracted the attention of the scientific community. Although it is extremely difficult technically, the idea [more...]

Feeling the Heat in Cells

April 17, 2017

The gallium nitride nanomembrane (GaN NM) is shown attached to a cell. When a pulsed laser is directed onto the nanomembrane, heat is transferred to the cell via a gold microdisc. By monitoring the emitted photoluminescent light (blue [more...]

SPIE -Microfluidics, BioMEMS, and Medical Microsystems XV 2017

January 28, 2017

The purpose of this conference is to provide an international technical forum to showcase recent advances in microfluidics, BioMEMS, and medical microsystems. Microfluidic devices and systems have created a tremendous interest in many [more...]

A Miniaturized Sensor That Can Measure Chemistry On-Chip

August 26, 2016

Light traveling through a nanoscale waveguide on a hip spreads beyond the waveguide and can interact with molecules above the surface of the chip. (Image Credit: Cornell University) By combining expertise in photonics – [more...]

Survey Microfluidics and Sensors

June 4, 2016

A schematic of a thermal mass flow meter (Image Credit: Wikiwand) As requested by Mr. Henne van Heeren, an invitation for Microfluidics and Sensors Voluntary Survey conduced by enablingMNT is posted. After our earlier very successful [more...]

Invasive Measurement of Blood Glucose No Longer Necessary

February 5, 2016

A group of researchers, led by Prof. Yuji Matsuura of Tohoku University’s Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, has developed a method of measuring blood glucose using far infrared light, which is both harmless and non-invasive. [more...]

Nanosheet Flow Meters Find Sensor Stability

October 21, 2015

Nanosheets have a surface-texture advantage (image credit: Anna Demming) The ability to monitor fluid flow is crucial for a number of applications but current methods use ‘hot wires’ that are brittle and prone to break under operating [more...]

Understanding Sensor Resolution Specifications

September 20, 2015

Summary The TechNote describes in detail the important factors in the interpretation of displacement resolution specifications found in most sensor datasheets – an often misinterpreted number. Introduction As a machine designer or [more...]

Senseonics Raises $10M for Implanted, Smartphone-connected Glucose Sensor

August 31, 2015

Germantown, Maryland-based continuous glucose monitor device maker Senseonics raised $10 million, according to an SEC filing. The company has not yet responded to a request for comment. Existing investors include Anthem Capital, Delphi [more...]

Mayo Clinic, Partners To Develop NFC-Driven Glucose Monitoring Tech

August 2, 2015

Gentag and NovioSense, developers of diabetes sensors, along with German chip-maker Fraunhofer Institute for Microelectronic Circuits and Systems (IMS), are forming a joint venture with healthcare institution Mayo Clinic to combine their [more...]

Stretchy Sensors Can Detect Deadly Gases and UV Radiation

June 14, 2015

Stretchy Sensor (Image Credit: RMIT University) RMIT University researchers have created wearable sensor patches that detect harmful UV radiation and dangerous, toxic gases such as hydrogen and nitrogen dioxide. These transparent, [more...]