Sensors

An Optical Sensor Platform Based on Nanopaper

August 7, 2015

Spots for individual assays made of nanopaper-based composites on a glass slide. (Image: Eden Morales-Narváez, Institut Català de Nanociencia i Nanotecnologia) Nanopaper, made from cellulose like traditional paper, shows much [more...]

Measurement, Instrumentation, and Sensors Handbook

August 2, 2015

Book Description Amazon Link | CRC Press Link Author: John G. Webster This new edition of the bestselling Measurement, Instrumentation, and Sensors Handbook brings together all aspects of the design and implementation [more...]

A Biosensing Chip Placed Under The Skin for More Precise Medicine

May 28, 2015

This biosensing chip has been created by researchers in EPFL’s Integrated Systems Laboratory. (Credit: Alain Herzog / EPFL) The future of medicine lies in ever greater precision, not only when [more...]

Sensor Detects Spoiled Meat

April 19, 2015

This MIT device, based on modified carbon nanotubes, can detect amines produced by decaying meat. Image Credit: Sophie Liu MIT chemists have devised an inexpensive, portable sensor that can detect [more...]

Breath Test for Detecting Head and Neck Cancer with Micro Sensor

April 13, 2015

Each sensor is composed of a silicon disk 500 micrometres in diameter that is covered by a polymer and suspended by four minuscule “bridges” with integrated piezoresistors Inhale, then exhale. [more...]

Plants Enable Highly Sensitive Temperature Sensors

April 5, 2015

ETH scientists used cells form the tobacco plant to build the by far most sensitive temperature sensor. (Image Credit: Daniele Flo/ETH Zurich) Scientists from ETH Zurich have developed a thermometer that [more...]

Optics, Nanotechnology Combined to Create Low-cost Sensor for Gases

April 5, 2015

Engineers have combined innovative optical technology with nanocomposite thin-films to create a new type of sensor that is inexpensive, fast, highly sensitive and able to detect and analyze a wide [more...]

Glucose Sensor Allows Single Point-of-Entry Artificial Pancreas

March 18, 2015

To create new types of sensors, gold films are patterned onto a substrate using microcontract printing and etching. (Credit: Oregon State University) Engineers at Oregon State University have used “additive [more...]

Microfluidic Diamond Sensor

March 2, 2015

A diamond nanocrystal (white object to the right of center) is used to map the magnetic field around a particle (red object at center). The particle floats in a shallow [more...]

Transducer 2015

March 1, 2015

The world’s premiere conference in MEMS sensors, actuators and integrated micro and nano systems welcomes you to attend this four-day event showcasing major technological, scientific and commercial breakthroughs in mechanical, [more...]

Sensors Expo and Conference 2015

March 1, 2015

Sensors Expo & Conference is the only industry event in North America exclusively focused on sensors and sensor integrated systems, providing 30 years of technical innovation and thought leadership! The [more...]

MEMS Gas Sensors

October 7, 2014

Miniaturized electronic “noses” offer intriguing prospects, such as exhaled-breath analysis and environmental air-quality monitoring with portable devices and mobile phones. Yet detecting the resultant tiny frequency shifts in [more...]

Microfluidic Chipshop

September 18, 2014

About the company: Manufacturer and developer of MEMS actuators, sensors and 3D mechanical structures. As an OEM MEMS foundry, its capabilities include microfabrication, packaging, assembly and characterization of MEMS devices [more...]