Archive for the ‘Sensors’ Category
Friday, April 8th, 2011
Today's sensors are fairly simple and are used for measuring temperature, balance, build-up of smoke or tyre pressure. The common trait of the sensors is that they are all embedded in a closed system. Now researchers at the Department of Informatics, University of Oslo in Norway are developing sensors for ...
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Thursday, March 10th, 2011
A newly developed surgical tool could dramatically reduce the time needed to map electrical problems in the heart, according to a Technology Review article by Katherine Bourzac. The tool, an inflatable catheter with stretchable, biocompatible silicon electronics, was developed by John Rogers, cofounder of the startup MC10 and professor at the ...
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Thursday, March 10th, 2011
Laser-structured strain gauges can be used for exact measurement of forces at critical points, such as for highly stressed tooling machines or complex 3-D workpieces. The Laser Zentrum Hannover (LZH) is currently developing sensor structures using ultrashort laser pulses to make the production of high-quality thin-film strain gauges economically attractive ...
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Wednesday, February 16th, 2011
During about 30% of all heart attacks, the patient experiences no symptoms. However, unmistakable signs of the attack remain in the bloodstream for days. MIT researchers, working with Massachusetts General Hospital's Cardiovascular Research Center, have now designed a tiny implant that can detect those signs, which could help doctors more ...
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Friday, December 10th, 2010
Critical components of a biomedical lab-on-chip sensor that would enable rapid detection of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in DNA were presented at the International Electron Devices Meeting in San Francisco, CA, USA, this week by Panasonic. The items included a miniaturised pump for on-chip pressure generation, a micropillar filter optimised for DNA ...
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Monday, December 6th, 2010
Swiss sensor manufacturer Sensirion is launching a new differential pressure sensor for measuring air flow in medical ventilation applications. With an extended measuring range of 0 to 3500 Pa and a fast response time of 8 ms, the SDP2108 has been developed specifically for medical technology–in particular for patient ventilation applications. The new ...
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Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
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A pan-European consortium of industrial, academic and research partners is engaged in the development of a biosensor system that, it is hoped, will achieve a breakthrough in rapid diagnosis of cerebrovascular disease, or stroke. The P3SENS consortium operates under the EU 7th Framework programme to ...
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Thursday, November 25th, 2010
Tokyo-based Kuraray Co. has developed a film polymer sensor that generates an electric charge when it is bent. Because of its flexibility, light weight and portability, the sensor can be applied directly to the body or embedded in apparel to monitor respiratory and other physical functions.
The degree of flexure of ...
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Wednesday, November 24th, 2010
At Compamed, Sonotec for the first time presented its latest clamp-on flow sensor SONOFLOW CO.54 for the use with flexible tubes. The specialist for ultrasonic applications from Halle, Germany, expands its sensor series with the intelligent sensor for non-invasive flow detection. Potential applications of the compact sensor lie in the ...
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Wednesday, October 13th, 2010
Conductive polymers are plastic materials with high electrical conductivity that could revolutionise a range of products including biomedical sensors. A team of McGill University researchers now reports how to visualise and study the process of energy transport along one single conductive polymer molecule at a ...
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Friday, October 8th, 2010
Wearable medical devices may not be chic—yet?—but they have a deeper beauty, and that resides in their noninvasiveness, says Coralie Gallis, head of CEA-Leti’s Business Development Department for Wearable Electronics. She was in Tokyo this week to present wearable motion sensors and biosensors developed by Leti (Laboratory for Electronics and ...
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Monday, September 13th, 2010
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Scientists at Stanford University have developed a pressure sensors for artificial skin for use on prosthetic limbs or robots that can detect slight sensations. By sandwiching a precisely moulded, elastic rubber ...
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