News tagged with voltage sensor

Finding reserves on the electrical grid

The weather determines how much energy wind turbine systems provide. The same applies to power line capacity. On cold and stormy days, this capacity is higher than on days with no wind and high mid-summer ...

Technology / Engineering

created May 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers develop battery-less chemical detector

(PhysOrg.com) -- Unlike many conventional chemical detectors that require an external power source, Lawrence Livermore researchers have developed a nanosensor that relies on semiconductor nanowires, rather ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

MEMS thermal sensor detects pre-atherosclerotic lesions

A new study published in the Annals of Biomedical Engineering shows that a MEMS thermal sensor deployed by an angiogram catheter can detect the earliest stages of atherosclerosis. The MEMS thermal sensor used convective heat t ...

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers use improved nanogenerators to power sensors based on zinc oxide nanowires

By combining a new generation of piezoelectric nanogenerators with two types of nanowire sensors, researchers have created what are believed to be the first self-powered nanometer-scale sensing devices that ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 28, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Samsung's New CMOS Imagers Offer High-Performance, HD Capable Solutions for Mobile Phones

Samsung Electronics today announced that it has developed two new CMOS image sensors - the S5K4E2 and the S5K5CA - for the mobile phone market. Designers and manufacturers of high-end smart phones and slim mobile handsets ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Feb 22, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New study has implications for understanding ion channel defects

(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health team has made a discovery important to the millions of people who are on common medications for heart and neurological diseases.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 01, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Uncooperative voltage sensors: Study advances conclusions about the Shaker Kv channel

The May 2009 issue of the Journal of General Physiology features an article and accompanying commentary on new experimental evidence that advances previous conclusions about the essential features of the Shaker K+ channe ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Apr 27, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0