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Sensors

The latest developments in computer vision, lidar, chemical sensors, and remote sensing
AerospaceTopicTypeRoboticsSensorsNews

Solar-Powered Microfliers for Swarm-Based Surveying

These drone-deployed, batteryless aerial motes change shape in midair

4 min read
Gold-colored, leaf sized origami surround a microflier
A gray-scale photograph showing pillars of varying diameters in an array
SensorsTopicJuly 2023MagazineTypeFeature

Flat Lenses Made of Nanostructures Transform Tiny Cameras and Projectors

Metalenses are finally moving into consumers’ hands

9 min read
In the foreground, a large number of bottles and barrels of different sizes are filed with a thick black liquid. A crowd of people stand in the background.
DIYTopicTypeSensorsNewsClimate TechTelecommunications

How Nigerian Hacktivists Are Taking on Big Oil

Their DIY sensor networks now trace pollution back to its sources

4 min read
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TelecommunicationsTopicWebinarTypeComputingConsumer Electronics

Data Acquisition On-Demand Webinars

Get instant online access to Teledyne's on-demand webinars on high-performance digitizers, pulse detection, peer-to-peer streaming, high-level synthesis, and more

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SemiconductorsTopicTypeSensorsNewsConsumer ElectronicsClimate Tech

How to Engineer a Reliable $1 Sensor for Safe Drinking Water

A graphene-based sensor uses AI to detect tiny levels of harmful bacteria and heavy metals

3 min read
A person in a hat has just released a white balloon with a long string and white circular ball on it. A dark thundercloud looms over the scene.
Climate TechTopicTypeSensorsNews

Hailsondes Launch Into Thunderstorms to Sound Them Out

Hollywood inspires new tech to probe hail, cloudbursts, and devastation

5 min read

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BiomedicalTopicTypeSensorsNews

New Biosensor Offers Real-Time Dialysis Feedback

The sensor could shorten lengthy dialysis sessions for kidney failure

3 min read
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BiomedicalTopicTypeSensorsNews

At Last, Single-Photon Cameras Could Peer Into Your Brain

The tech has long been stymied on how to scale it out of the lab

3 min read

Journal Watch

The latest engineering and computer science advances in context from IEEE Spectrum and the Xplore Digital Library
TransportationTopicTypeNewsClimate Tech

This Universal Charger Could Simplify the EV Landscape

2 min read
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EnergyTopicTypeNewsClimate Tech

Solar-Powered Electric Motors for EVs That Never Plug In

2 min read
A photo-illustration of a car with solar panels on top moving in a symbol of the sun.
Climate TechTopicEnergyTypeComputingNews

Tape Storage Might Be Computing’s Climate Savior

4 min read
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Climate TechTopicEnergyTypeNews

Where There’s Smoke, There’s Wiggly Solar Output

3 min read
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ComputingTopicTypeSensorsNewsTelecommunications

Quantum Repeaters for a Global Quantum Internet

New relay node can link quantum computers and sensors across dozens of kilometers

4 min read
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Consumer ElectronicsTopicTypeSensorsNews

Tiny Metamaterial Lens Snaps Outsize Images

Hybrid meta-optics takes high-grade photos without bulky, conventional optics

3 min read
An x-ray of a human skull and shoulders. There are red dotted lines along the eyebrow area and two implants, one in each shoulder.
BiomedicalTopicTypeSensorsNews

Machine Learning Hunts for Chronic Pain’s Signature

Researchers have mapped brain activity to painful sensations

4 min read

The Transistor at 75

The past, present, and future of the modern world’s most important invention
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Illustration of a cake with a candle shaped as a transistor symbol
A phot of an outstretched hand with several transistors in the palm of it.
SemiconductorsTopicDecember 2022MagazineTypeFeatureSpecial Reports

How the First Transistor Worked

A chart showing the timeline of when a transistor was invented and when it was commercialized.
SemiconductorsTopicDecember 2022MagazineTypeFeatureHistory of TechnologySpecial Reports

The Ultimate Transistor Timeline

A photo of 3 different transistors.
SemiconductorsTopicDecember 2022MagazineTypeFeatureSpecial Reports

The State of the Transistor in 3 Charts

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SemiconductorsTopicDecember 2022MagazineTypeFeatureSpecial Reports

3D-Stacked CMOS Takes Moore’s Law to New Heights

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SemiconductorsTopicDecember 2022MagazineTypeFeatureSpecial Reports

The Transistor of 2047: Expert Predictions

SensorsNewsTypeTopic

Insect Ears Inspire Superefficient Microphones

Tiny 3D-printed devices can determine a sound’s direction with minimal power and processing

3 min read
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A circle with six spiral waves curling from it's center, and a gold electrode sits in an exposed section of brain in a mannequin's head.
BiomedicalTopicTypeRoboticsSensorsNews

Soft Robot Unfurls Inside the Skull

New device could improve brain-computer interfaces

3 min read
Argonne’s Polybot Joins the Self-Driving Lab Club
RoboticsTopicTypeSensorsNews

Argonne’s Polybot Joins the Self-Driving Lab Club

Semiautonomous lab robots drive quest to navigate the material world

4 min read
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Consumer ElectronicsTopicTypeSensorsNews

The Internet of Things: Fire Sleuth, Fire Starter

IoT devices can witness how fires started, but there are doubts about the integrity of their evidence

5 min read
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SensorsNewsTypeTopic

A Tiny Terahertz Wake-Up Receiver Could Turbocharge IoT

The antenna can extend battery life and protect against attacks

3 min read
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SensorsNewsTypeTopic

Turn Any Surface Into a Trackpad

Surface acoustic wave sensors make clothes and countertops into touch interfaces

3 min read
A square device with chemical symbols and two golden pointed three dimensional shapes.
SensorsTopicTypeNewsTelecommunications

Shape-shifting Nano-Devices Slide Into Place

Applications in MEMS, nano-accelerometers, and optical beam steering

2 min read
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SensorsNewsTypeTopic

Entanglement Could Step in Where GPS Is Denied

Tapping quantum weirdness to make an ultra-accelerometer

3 min read
A green three dimensional dolphin shape emerges from a blow out of two squares of material.
SensorsTopicTypeNews

Sharper 3D Holograms Come Into Focus

New projection method is key to depth control and reducing image bleed-through

3 min read
Artificial IntelligenceTopicMagazineTypeFeatureSensorsSeptember 2022

Will AI Steal Submarines’ Stealth?

Better detection will make the oceans transparent—and perhaps doom mutually assured destruction

11 min read
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