News tagged with sensor electronics


New 'smart' homes for dementia sufferers

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Within five years innovative 'smart' sensing systems that will help the UK's 700,000 dementia sufferers live independently at home could be available commercially.





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NASA to modify shuttle fuel sensors

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 28, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

U.S. space officials said they will modify a fuel sensor system on the space shuttle Atlantis to correct false readings.


Samsung Developed World's Smallest 8.4 megapixel CMOS Image Sensor

Samsung Developed World's Smallest 8.4 megapixel CMOS Image Sensor

Electronics / Hardware

created Mar 27, 2007 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Samsung Electronics announced today an 8.4 megapixel (Mp) CMOS image sensor (CIS) at Samsung’s fourth annual Mobile Solution Forum.


Handheld DNA detector

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Mar 10, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

A researcher at the National University at San Diego has taken a mathematical approach to a biological problem - how to design a portable DNA detector. Writing in the International Journal of Nanotechnology, he describes a math ...


New vibration powered generator for wireless systems

Technology / Engineering

created Jul 04, 2007 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (27) | comments 0

A generator that is 10 times more powerful than any other similar devices has been developed by engineers at the University of Southampton.


'Lab on a chip' to measure water stress in plants

'Lab on a chip' to measure water stress in plants

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jul 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Fifteen years ago, when Alan Lakso first sought to enlist Cornell's nanofabrication laboratory to develop a tiny sensor that would measure water stress in grapevines, the horticultural sciences ...


Sensor Detects Onset of Acute Myocardial Ischemia

Physics / Soft Matter

created Apr 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineering researchers at the University of Arkansas have fabricated and tested a unique biosensor that measures concentrations of potassium and hydrogen ions in the human heart with high specificity. The ...


Mysterious charge transport in self-assembled monolayer transistors unraveled

Mysterious charge transport in self-assembled monolayer transistors unraveled

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 11, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

An international team of researchers from the Netherlands, Russia and Austria discovered that monolayer coverage and channel length set the mobility in self-assembled monolayer field-effect transistors (SAMFETs). ...


Asthma monitoring on the Web

Technology / Engineering

created Aug 22, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

An inexpensive web-enabled device for measuring lung function in patients with asthma and other disorders is being developed by researchers at Texas Instruments, in Bangalore, India, and co-workers. Writing in the International Jo ...


Researchers make new electronics -- with a twist

Researchers make new electronics -- with a twist

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 19, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 0

They've made electronics that can bend. They've made electronics that can stretch. And now, they've reached the ultimate goal -- electronics that can be subjected to any complex deformation, including twisting.


Electronic components integrated into textile-reinforced composites

Electronic components integrated into textile-reinforced composites

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 05, 2006 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Textile-reinforced composites have a high strength at low weight. Therefore, they are interesting particularly for applications in light weight construction and vehicle engineering.



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