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Atomtronics Could Replace Electronics

Physicists at the Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland, have built a circuit that is hardly more than a whiff of gas moving within laser beams.

16 Feb 2011

NBRO to Install Sensors to Detect Landslides

The National Building Research Organization (NBRO) of Sri Lanka has asked the national government to install meters that have systems that will sense landslides in areas potentially at risk across the country.

16 Feb 2011

Semiconductor Radiation Sensor to Reduce Response to Visible Light

Member of the ITW Photonics Group, and a division of ITW, Opto Diode is unveiling sensors to detect semiconductor radiation that will enable tracking of photons and other particles.

16 Feb 2011

Grant Awarded to Continue Research on Wireless Sensor Nodes

Potomac Photonics, a company that produces micromachines recently received a grant worth approximately US$500,000 from the National Science Foundation.

From POTOMAC PHOTONICS 16 Feb 2011

Turkey Thermometer to Ensure Hygiene and Safety

Chicago-based, Parasia International, will launch its Digital Turkey Thermometer/Alarm at the 2011 International Home & Housewares Show to be held between March 6 and 8 at McCormick Place in Chicago, Illinois.

16 Feb 2011

Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy to Maintain Output Integrity

The capability of an energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) sensor to garner miniscule X-ray counts at the nano-metre scale is a necessity, crucial to its success.

16 Feb 2011

Gold Plated Nano Pillars to Support Plasmons Across Wide Areas

Wakana Kubo and Shigenori Fujikawa from the RIKEN Innovation Center, Wako, and the Japan Science and Technology Agency, have developed a nanostructure that will support plasmons across wide areas.

16 Feb 2011

Temperature Tags Enhance Quality of Patient Care

CenTrak, a company that develops real time location systems (RTLS) for monitors patients, attendants and equipment in healthcare centers, has unveiled its IT-735 probe-based temperature sensor tag.

16 Feb 2011

Air Blast Spray Cleaner to Reduce Overall Operation Costs

Electro-Chemical Devices has launched the AC10 Air Blast Spray Cleaner minimizing the need for manual cleaning of sensors, thus reducing a technician’s work hours and costs of treatment of water and wastewater.

16 Feb 2011

Sensor Tape Improves Care of Adult Patients

A technology venture firm, Akita Techno Design, has developed sensors for adult diapers and absorptive pads, which informs care workers when a change is needed.

16 Feb 2011

Government of India to Receive Sensor Fuzed Weapon

The United States Air Force has given a contract worth $257 million to Textron Defense Systems, adhering to which, Textron will provide 512 units of CBU-105 Sensor Fuzed Weapons (SFW) to the Government of India. This comes in accordance with the Foreign Military Sale agreement between the two countries.

16 Feb 2011

U.S Air Force to Benefit from Tac-Eye LT Wearable Display Solutions

Vuzix is set to deliver to the Battlefield Air Operations Kit Program of the U.S. Air Force, a shipment of its next generation Tac-Eye LT wearable display solution worth over $1 million within three months.

16 Feb 2011

Capacitive Proximity Sensors for Object and Level Detection Applications

Offering a wider array of products to reliably solve object as well as level detection applications is Balluff’s new line of economical Global.CProx capacitive sensors.

16 Feb 2011

Vernier Develops Affordable Sensors for LabQuest Interfaces

Vernier Software & Technology has developed four sensors and probes for Vernier LabQuest, which is a handheld interface. The sensors include the anemometer, 30-V voltage probe, high current sensor and a melt station, applying which one can collect and measure scientific data such as wind speed and melting temperatures.

16 Feb 2011

Raytheon’s Surveillance Radar Accomplishes Free-Space Radiation from Elevated Aerostat

The JLENS (Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System) program from Raytheon Company has demonstrated its ability to transmit from an elevated aerostat, successfully.

16 Feb 2011