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CEA-LETI Builds Prototype of Next-Generation Mid-Infrared Optical Sensors for Portable Devices

CEA-Leti today announced it has prototyped a next-generation optical chemical sensor using mid-infrared silicon photonics that can be integrated in smartphones and other portable devices.

7 Feb 2019

Using Nano-Sized LiFePO4 Modified Electrode in Electrochemical Sensor and Biosensor

Electrochemical sensors and biosensors allow scientists to measure small amounts of chemicals or physico-chemical parameters in experimental sites.

11 Jan 2019

New Electrochemical Sensor Could Enable Rapid Detection of Phenols in Wastewater

Scientists at the Harbin Institute of Technology have discovered a non-enzymatic and low-cost phenol sensor that has good selectivity, high sensitivity, stability, and reproducibility.

12 Dec 2018

Simple, Scalable Wireless System Uses Common RFID Tags to Detect Contamination in Food

Scientists at the MIT Media Lab have designed a wireless system that leverages the inexpensive RFID tags already on hundreds of billions of products to detect potential food contamination—with no hardware alterations needed.

15 Nov 2018

Superior Sensors Using Large Supercrystals

Gold nanoparticles self-assemble into remarkably large supercrystals, enhancing the detection sensitivity for chemicals in drugs or explosives.

3 Aug 2018

Innovative Chemical Sensing Chip Rapidly Tests for Drugs in Biological Samples

Imagine testing for marijuana, opioids & cocaine as rapidly as a breathalyzer tests alcohol. An innovative, less expensive chemical sensing chip enables getting a step closer to this technology.

15 May 2018

U-M Researchers Design Chemical Detector Which can be Downsized to a Shoebox

Researchers from the University of Michigan have designed a chemical sensor prototype with the potential to detect “single-fingerprint quantities” of substances from a distance of over 100 feet. They are now striving to reduce its size to that of a shoebox.

18 Dec 2017

New Optical Sensor Device Designed to Detect Drugs, Bomb-Making Chemicals

Researchers searching for bomb-making components, traces of drugs and other chemicals time and again shine light on the materials they are examining.

1 Aug 2017

SERS-Based Sensor Could Detect Miniscule Amounts of Heavy Metal Ions Quickly

A chemical sensor equipped with organic chemical compounds could provide selective, reproducible detection of miniscule amounts of heavy metal ions quickly. The sensor is based on a plasmon-polariton surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) platform.

1 Aug 2017

Semiconductor-to-Metallic Phase Transition Could Lead to Entirely New Class of Chemical Vapor Sensors

A team of Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) proved that monolayer 2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenides (TMDs), referred to as atomically thin semiconductors, go through a transformation from semiconductor-to-metallic phase when they are exposed to airborne chemical vapors.

27 Jul 2017

Chemical Sensor News

CEA-LETI Builds Prototype of Next-Generation Mid-Infrared Optical Sensors for Portable Devices

Using Nano-Sized LiFePO4 Modified Electrode in Electrochemical Sensor and Biosensor

New Electrochemical Sensor Could Enable Rapid Detection of Phenols in Wastewater

Simple, Scalable Wireless System Uses Common RFID Tags to Detect Contamination in Food

Superior Sensors Using Large Supercrystals

Innovative Chemical Sensing Chip Rapidly Tests for Drugs in Biological Samples

U-M Researchers Design Chemical Detector Which can be Downsized to a Shoebox

New Optical Sensor Device Designed to Detect Drugs, Bomb-Making Chemicals

SERS-Based Sensor Could Detect Miniscule Amounts of Heavy Metal Ions Quickly

Semiconductor-to-Metallic Phase Transition Could Lead to Entirely New Class of Chemical Vapor Sensors

Liquid Analysis Simplified - Discover Memosens

Advancing the Sensors and Transducers Industry - The Incredible Story of Massa

Coriolis - Changing the Face of Flowmeters

Versatile Radar Level Sensor: NCR-86

Cubic TDLAS Methane Gas Sensing Solutions for Oil and Gas Industry

The capaNCDT 6228: A New Standard in Capacitive High Temperature Sensors up to 800 °C

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