Sensors

Sensirion is Acquiring the Automotive Business from Korean Peer Auto Industrial Co.

September 25, 2017

Swiss sensor technology company Sensirion is acquiring the automotive business from Korean peer Auto Industrial Co. (AIC). The takeover includes AICs relevant business in South Korea, China, and the U.S. The move will bolster Sensirion’s [more...]

NevadaNano and University of Utah Robotics Center Successfully Complete First Demonstration of Autonomous Aerial Chemical Detection System

September 4, 2017

NevadaNano today announced that the U.S. Army has awarded the company and the University of Utah’s DARC Lab the next round of funding for the “Autonomous Broad Spectrum Environmental Sentinels” Small Business Technology [more...]

Miniaturized Mass Spectrometer for Mars Exploration Has Massive Potential

September 4, 2017

BYU researchers have created a miniaturized, portable version of a tool now capable of analyzing Mars’ atmosphere—and that’s just one of its myriad possible uses. For decades mass spectrometers have offered a relatively fast [more...]

Ultraviolet Light Sensor for Wearable Devices

June 10, 2017

The new UV light sensor technology uses only silicon semiconductors to selectively detect and measure the light intensity of UV-A and UV-B light wavebands. (Credit: Tohoku University) Mass production technology for silicon based [more...]

Using Distinctive Body Locations to Control Mobile Devices

May 29, 2017

Computer scientists from Saarland University and the US company Google are giving wrinkles, knuckles and birthmarks a whole new meaning. Similarly to temporary tattoos for children, the researchers are placing ultra-thin, electronic [more...]

Graphene Nanosensor Enables Ultra-sensitive Mass Detection

May 13, 2017

Using a graphene nanoribbon suspended over a trench, a team of researchers at the University of Science and Technology of China has discovered a link between the nanomechanical motion and conductance through a single-electron transistor [more...]

Microflow Sensor, Micropump Combine for Single-use Drug Delivery Module

March 28, 2017

Fraunhofer EMFT’s silicon micropump has been combined with Sensirion’s LD20 single-use liquid flow sensor to develop a smart and cost-efficient miniaturized module for controlled and monitored drug delivery. This highly integrated [more...]

[Startup] Yale spin-off Fluid-Screen Inc.

March 27, 2017

Fluid-Screen, Inc. is a startup pursuing a mission to provide safer living for millions of people globally, while building a significant, valuable company. They are commercializing a technology developed at Yale University that can [more...]

Miniature Sensor Measures Velocity of Blood Flow Below Skin

December 28, 2016

From Admin: The article reports a novel optical Blood-flow sensor used for measuring velocity of blood flow below skin, which is based on the principle of Droppler shift. The sensor is an integrated module with laser diode and photodiode [more...]

Novartis, Google Backtrack Plans to Test Smart Contact Lens in 2016

November 27, 2016

When will Novartis and Google begin testing the autofocus contact lens they have been developing? Well, there’s still no clear date in sight. The pharmaceutical company announced late last week they had done away with a 2016 goal of [more...]

Integrated Biosensors for Streamlined Human Behavior Research

November 14, 2016

Facial Expression Analysis Engine seamlessly integrates into the iMotions platform (Image credit: iMitions) The landscape of human behavior research is changing rapidly these days. Many questions that were once believed to exist solely in [more...]

3D-printed Heart-on-a-chip with Integrated Sensors

November 6, 2016

Harvard University researchers have made the first entirely 3D-printed organ-on-a-chip with integrated sensing. Built by a fully automated, digital manufacturing procedure, the 3D-printed heart-on-a-chip can be quickly fabricated and [more...]

Detecting Emotions With Wireless Signals

September 26, 2016

Left to right: PhD student Fadel Adib, PhD student Mingmin Zhao, and Professor Dina Katabi pose with their EQ-Radio device, which can detect emotion using wireless signals (Image Photo: Jason Dorfman/MIT CSAIL) As many a relationship book [more...]

Development of Chemical Sensing Material That Enables Smartphones to Detect Toxic Gases

September 11, 2016

Toxic gas sensor integrated with a near field communication (NFC) tag linked to a smartphone. (Image Credit: NIMS) Researchers in Japan and US jointly developed a chemical sensing material whose electrical conductivity dramatically [more...]

The Convergence of Microfluidics, Commercial Mobility & Compute Technologies for New Applications in Healthcare

September 4, 2016

Fig. 1: Commercial mobility for digital health revolution (Image Credit: HP Healthcare Solutions) What will our future look like? Blended Reality, the fusing of our physical and digital worlds, is a uniquely promising value proposition [more...]

Microfluidics-Based Pressure Sensor Takes Loads, Bends

June 25, 2016

Researchers from the National University of Singapore have devised a thin and flexible pressure sensor that not only measures compression loads from a very wide range (2 kPa to 400 kPa) but can also distinguish bending or stretching loads. [more...]

Pressure Measurement and Control Anywhere in Your Microfluidic Setup

April 18, 2016

The Elveflow microfluidic pressure capillary sensor can be plugged anywhere in your microfluidic setup in order to record pressure on your computer and control the flow subsequently thanks to Elveflow pressure pumps. The pressure sensors [more...]

Ingestible Sensor Market to Reach $678M by 2022

March 21, 2016

Image Credit: Proteus Digital Health The ingestible sensor market is expected to grow from $198 million in 2015 to $678 million by 2022, at a CAGR of 20.2% between 2016 and 2022, according to a new report from MarketsandMarkets. The [more...]

World of Microfluidics European Micro Cup Explainer Videos

December 2, 2015

The research field of Microfluidics involves the development of technologies for the transport and processing of liquids in structures whose size is in the micrometer range. These technologies form the basis for a variety of applications [more...]

Ten Smartphone-Based Systems for Infectious Disease Detection, Epidemiology

September 20, 2015

From transportation to healthcare, service systems make our lives easier and more productive on a daily basis. New technologies that learn from data are bringing intelligence to service systems, allowing them to center on people by [more...]