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New Quanta Image Sensor for Superior Quality, Low Light Imaging

A new imaging technology that could transform life sciences and medical research, photography, security, cinematography and several other applications that depend on superior quality, low light imaging has been developed by Engineers from Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering.

19 Dec 2017

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 Measurement Solution for Segmented Silos

Operations burdened with managing inventory in pie-shaped segments of silos now have a solution that provides very accurate volume data—thanks to new firmware for the 3DLevelScanner acoustic sensor. The 3DL...

From BinMaster 15 Dec 2017

Resolve Optics & IMAO Awarded €1.68M to Develop Gigapixel Aerial Camera

Resolve Optics Ltd in conjunction with IMAO SAS (Limoges, France) has received a Euro 1.68 million Horizon 2020 award to expedite the development of a 1GPixel resolution ultra-large format aerial surveillance camera. ...

14 Dec 2017

Plasmonic Biosensors Pave Way for Development of User-Friendly Health Tests

A biosensor created at Aalto University enables developing a variety of new health tests quite like home pregnancy tests.

14 Dec 2017

PIR Sensor-Incorporated Device can Detect Occupancy of Even Stationary Individuals

At present, photoelectric infrared (PIR) sensors are being largely used for detecting occupancy presence in buildings. The sensors are applied for smart thermostats to regulate cooling and heating depending upon occupancy.

13 Dec 2017

Marvell Announces Industry’s Most Complete 802.11ax Wireless Portfolio

Marvell (NASDAQ:MRVL), a leader in storage, networking, and connectivity semiconductor solutions today introduced the industry’s most complete 802.11ax wireless product portfolio. The Marvell&...

13 Dec 2017

MKS Announces Ophir® LBS-300s, New Beam Splitter Finds Focus Spots with Shorter Working Distances

MKS Instruments, Inc. (NASDAQ: MKSI), a global provider of technologies that enable advanced processes and improve productivity, has announced the Ophir® LBS-300s, a compact, portable laser beam splitter for handling...

12 Dec 2017

New Smart System to Monitor Children's Chronic Illness

A team of researchers from the University of Granada (UGR) and the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) have developed a new smart system for monitoring children who are diagnosed with a chronic illness, such as asthma.

12 Dec 2017

LETI DEVELOPS WORLD’S FIRST MICRO-COOLERS FOR CERN PARTICLE DETECTORS

Leti, a research institute of CEA Tech, today announced it has created the world’s first microfluidic circuit for cooling a particle detector, perhaps paving the way to a revolutionary, new detector technique at th...

11 Dec 2017

Bioelectronic ‘Nose’ Detects Spoilt Food by Sensing Decay Compound

Strong odors indicate that a certain food has gone bad; however soon there may be a new way to smell foul odors earlier on. Researchers have built a bioelectronic “nose” that can exactly detect a main decay compound at low levels, enabling people to potentially do something about it before the smell spreads.

7 Dec 2017

Unused Fiber-Optic Cables Exploited for Use in Seismic Monitoring

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have demonstrated for the first time that dark fiber - the massive network of unused fiber-optic cables installed all over the country and the world - can be used as sensors for detecting earthquakes, changes in permafrost conditions, the presence of groundwater, and a variety of other subsurface activity.

6 Dec 2017

Monitoring Oil Flow to Critical Bearings in Heavy Machinery

Titan Enterprises reports how it developed an adapted version of its OG5 flowmeter for a leading supplier of mobile rock crushers to monitor oil flow to the rotating cylinder bearing mechanism at the heart of their ...

From Titan Enterprises Ltd. 6 Dec 2017

dlhBOWLES to Showcase Sensor Cleaning Systems Technology at CES 2018

dlhBOWLES will be displaying their Sensor Cleaning Systems technology as part of the LeddarTech “Leddar Ecosystem Pavilion” at the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, NV from January 9 – 12, 2018.

6 Dec 2017

Researchers Develop the First Switchable Molecular Diode

Molecular electronics is a developing research area where scientists learn about electrical properties of the molecules with a chemically programmed function. Molecules are capable of functioning as switches, diodes and transistors, all with a distinctive length of few nanometers.

5 Dec 2017