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New Semiconductor Schottky Contact Sensors Outshine Infrared Sensors

At Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) Institute of Materials Science, a research team has developed new silicon and graphene Schottky contact-based infrared radiation sensors with higher efficiency than the infrared sensors available in the market.

21 Oct 2020

MIPT Researchers Develop a Prototype Detector of Solar Particles

Researchers from MIPT have developed a prototype detector of solar particles. The device is capable of picking up protons at kinetic energies between 10 and 100 megaelectronvolts, and electrons at 1-10 MeV.

14 Oct 2020

Space Technology Set to Boost National Water Quality Management

Satellites in space and a network of ground-based sensors could be used to monitor the quality of Australia’s inland waterways, reservoirs and coastal environments.

21 Sep 2020

Engineers Develop Device to Calibrate Sensors on Earth-Imaging Satellites

A prototype device may soon be used for calibrating sensors on satellites used for imaging the Earth.

5 Aug 2020

Danforth Center Researcher Wins Grant to Develop Integrated Smart Farm System

The National Institute for Food and Agriculture and the National Science Foundation has awarded Nadia Shakoor, Ph.D., senior research scientist at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, a three-year, $1.4 million grant to develop FieldDock, an integrated smart farm system.

16 Jul 2020

Vaisala and FMI Technology Heads to Mars Onboard NASA’s Perseverance Rover

International collaboration takes Vaisala and the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) to Mars onboard NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover. The rover is scheduled to launch on July 30, 2020. Vaisala’s sensor technology combined with FMI’s measurement instrumentation will be used to obtain accurate and reliable pressure and humidity data from the surface of the red planet.

From Vaisala Corporation 2 Jul 2020