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Printed conductor paths connect a flow sensor (below) with the contacts on a circuit board (above). Credit: Fraunhofer IFAM
Printed conductor paths connect a flow sensor (below) with the contacts on a circuit board (above). Credit: Fraunhofer IFAM

Modern cars are full of sensors. The optimum quantity of air in the intake tract of a combustion engine is regulated by thermoelectric flow sensors, for instance. They measure which quantities of a gas or a liquid flow in a particular direction. Another application for sensors like these is in medicine, where they regulate tiny quantities of drugs.


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