White Paper: Design SPONSORED BY: This white paper explores the advantages of modern digital capacitive sensing technology for high-precision, non-contact measurement applications. It explains how capacitance sensors provide exceptional resolution, stability, and accuracy without mechanical

Overview The Medical Manufacturing and Outsourcing Special Report for November 2024 provides a comprehensive overview of the current trends and innovations in the medical manufacturing sector, particularly focusing on pharmaceutical manufacturing and processing. The report highlights the challenges

Modern wireless and satellite communication systems — including SATCOM, radar, and other high-frequency RF applications — require engineers to understand time-domain behavior and frequency-domain performance together. Correlating transient events, interference, and multi-channel interactions is crit

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The Optical Society, Washington, DCResearchers have developed a new self-calibrating endoscope that produces 3D images of objects smaller than a single cell without a lens or any optical, electrical, or mechanical components. The tip of the endoscope measures just 200 microns across — about the widt

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Overview The Special Report on Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and Autonomous Vehicles, published in June 2024, delves into the latest advancements and trends in automotive technology, particularly focusing on the integration of sensors and the evolution of vehicle capabilities. The report

Electronics & Sensors INSIDER A new chip can efficiently accelerate machine-learning workloads on edge devices like smartphones while protecting sensitive user data from two common types of attacks — side-channel attacks and bus-probing attacks. (Image: Chip figure courtesy of the researchers; M

Electronics & Sensors INSIDER The group developed the 6502 chip on a wafer (right) and on a plate (middle). (Image: © KU Leuven-imec) Silicon semiconductors have become the ‘oil’ of the computer age, as was demonstrated recently by the chip shortage crisis. However, one of the disadvantages of c

Electronics & Sensors INSIDER Professor Massimo Alioto, Director of the FD-fAbrICS joint lab, speaking to participants from the industry and research community to share the latest developments in FD-SOI technologies at an industry showcase held on 3 May. (Image: FD-fAbrICS joint lab) Researchers

Overview The Rugged Computing & Electronics Special Report from June 2024 presents a comprehensive overview of advancements in technology tailored for military and aerospace applications. The report emphasizes the critical need for robust and reliable electronic systems that can withstand the ri

Programmable DC power supplies have many more uses than those that are just controlled manually. The output levels can be remotely programmed to meet system and application requirements, for example in performing equipment testing.How much do you know about programmable power supplies? Take this qui

Overview The June 2024 Special Report on Medical Manufacturing & Outsourcing provides a comprehensive overview of the latest advancements and trends in the medical manufacturing sector, with a particular focus on optimizing processes to enhance efficiency and compliance. One of the key highlight

Andrew Corselli Sensors printed on human fingers. (Image: Huang Lab, Cambridge) Researchers have developed a method to make adaptive and eco-friendly sensors that can be directly and imperceptibly printed onto a wide range of biological surfaces, whether that’s a finger or a flower petal. The method

Developed with funding from a NASA-backed consortium, the EmbracePlus combines medical-grade capabilities and precision with the look, feel, and comfort of a consumer product. (Image: Empatica Inc.) Life for astronauts on the International Space Station has been, for the most part, less taxing than

The WirelessArray developed by Interdisciplinary Consulting Corporation (IC2), laid out here for a test flight at Langley Research Center, makes flight testing for drones quick and cost-effective. (Image: NASA) Airplane manufacturers running noise tests on new aircraft now have a much cheaper option

Home Sensors/Data Acquisition Article July 19, 2024 (Image: Maggie Bartlett, NHGRI, via Wikipedia)Lab-on-a-Chip (LoC) technology integrates various analyses such as biochemical operations, chemical synthesis, and DNA sequencing onto a single chip, which otherwise would have been performed

KyoceraKyoto, Japanhttps://global.kyocera.com/ Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc. Tokyo, Japanhttps://www.sonycsl.co.jp/ A diagram of the optical communications demonstration. (Image: Sony Computer Science Laboratories) Kyocera Corporation’s “Fine Cordierite” ceramic mirror was chosen for use