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Two Up-and-Coming Companies Collaborate to Make Battery-Less IoT a Sustainable Reality

Two Up-and-Coming Companies Collaborate to Make Battery-Less IoT a Sustainable Reality

Current energy-harvesting designs have their limitations. e-peas and Sequans are coming up with what they call a "non-stop, zero-maintenance" solution.


Sensors Blitz the CES Stage—AR/VR, 3D Finger Scanning, Automotive LiDAR, and More

Sensors Blitz the CES Stage—AR/VR, 3D Finger Scanning, Automotive LiDAR, and More

Innovations in smart technology call for innovations in sensor ICs. Here are a few that have stood out in the first few days of CES 2021.


News Jan 13, 2021 by Jake Hertz
Allegro Packs Power, Voltage, and AC/DC Current Monitoring Into New Hall-Effect IC

Allegro Packs Power, Voltage, and AC/DC Current Monitoring Into New Hall-Effect IC

Many Hall-effect sensors specialize in one area of power monitoring—voltage, current, or power from either AC or DC signals. Allegro says its new IC monitors all of these metrics in one chip.


News Jan 11, 2021 by Jake Hertz
TDK’s Newest MEMS Accelerometer Hopes to Address Familiar Sensor Design Woes

TDK’s Newest MEMS Accelerometer Hopes to Address Familiar Sensor Design Woes

TDK's recently-announced single-axis MEMS accelerometer aims to bring a bit more bandwidth to the table in a bandwidth-hungry industry.


Optical Sensor Mimicking the Human Eye Could Sharpen Neuromorphic Computing

Optical Sensor Mimicking the Human Eye Could Sharpen Neuromorphic Computing

A new type of optical sensor developed at Oregon State University can closely mimic the human eye’s ability to perceive changes in its visual field, researchers claim.


News Dec 16, 2020 by Luke James
New SWIR Technology May Be a Catalyst for Machine Vision

New SWIR Technology May Be a Catalyst for Machine Vision

This week, Belgian-company Imec introduced a prototype of a new SWIR sensor offering record small pixel pitch. How is this announcement representative of SWIR's growing place in machine learning?


News Dec 16, 2020 by Jake Hertz
NXP Banks on Radar Sensing to Push Vehicles to Greater Levels of Autonomy

NXP Banks on Radar Sensing to Push Vehicles to Greater Levels of Autonomy

Today, NXP released a new line of radar sensing technologies for the automotive industry. We interviewed their team to learn how they hope to bring vehicles to full autonomy.


News Dec 07, 2020 by Jake Hertz
Light-Activated Hydrogen Sensor Inspired by Butterfly Wings

Light-Activated Hydrogen Sensor Inspired by Butterfly Wings

Once again, researchers have turned to natural phenomena to drive advances in electronics—this time, in hydrogen sensors.


News Dec 07, 2020 by Luke James
An Engineer’s Checklist for Preparing Thanksgiving Dinner

An Engineer’s Checklist for Preparing Thanksgiving Dinner

The perfectly engineered Thanksgiving dinner is within reach, with the help of some perfectly normal and definitely not overboard technology.


News Nov 26, 2020 by Kate Smith
Capacitive Sensors Are Changing the Way We Interact With Cars

Capacitive Sensors Are Changing the Way We Interact With Cars

This week, Austrian company ams released a new capacitive sensor to perform hands-on detection. This announcement reflects a trend in capacitive sensors leading the charge in automotive HMIs.


News Nov 23, 2020 by Jake Hertz
Synopsys Acquires In-Chip Monitoring Solutions Leader Moortec

Synopsys Acquires In-Chip Monitoring Solutions Leader Moortec

Synopsys has announced its acquisition of UK-based in-chip monitoring leader Moortec, whose technology forms a core part of Synopsys’ Silicon Lifecycle Management platform.


News Nov 21, 2020 by Luke James
Apple Brings LiDAR to the iPhone 12 Pro for Augmented Reality Applications

Apple Brings LiDAR to the iPhone 12 Pro for Augmented Reality Applications

Apple's inclusion of a LiDAR-capable sensor in the iPhone 12 Pro opened doors for augmented reality applications. But using LiDAR with AR is not without its design challenges.


News Nov 16, 2020 by Jake Hertz
MIT Sends a Battery-Free GPS Underwater

MIT Sends a Battery-Free GPS Underwater

Researchers at MIT have developed a new underwater communication technique, called underwater backscattering localization, which they hope will need for batteries in underwater GPS.


News Nov 03, 2020 by Jake Hertz
Altimeter Technology—Pressure, Radar, and Optical—Rises to Great Heights

Altimeter Technology—Pressure, Radar, and Optical—Rises to Great Heights

Altimeters have taken off since the 1920s. Now, with piezoresistive ICs and LiDAR-like technology, they're more advanced than ever.


News Oct 30, 2020 by Tyler Charboneau
New Sensor is So Tiny That an Insect Can Drop It Into Dangerous Research Areas

New Sensor is So Tiny That an Insect Can Drop It Into Dangerous Research Areas

Tiny insects or drones can carry the high-tech sensor, which weighs less than a gram, into places that are too dangerous or inaccessible to human researchers.


News Oct 23, 2020 by Luke James
Researchers Bring Sintering Heat to Room Temperature to Print Sensors on Human Skin

Researchers Bring Sintering Heat to Room Temperature to Print Sensors on Human Skin

A joint research effort between China and the United States has culminated in a method for printing sensors directly onto human skin at room temperature.


News Oct 22, 2020 by Luke James
Army Funds Research for Sensor with “100,000 Times Higher Sensitivity”

Army Funds Research for Sensor with “100,000 Times Higher Sensitivity”

Army researchers have developed a new microwave radiation sensor that’s said to have 100,000 times higher sensitivity than currently-available commercial sensors.


News Oct 16, 2020 by Luke James
Silicone Sensor Allows Device to Stretch While Measuring Strain and Pressure

Silicone Sensor Allows Device to Stretch While Measuring Strain and Pressure

Researchers in Japan have turned to heterogeneous silicone to "bounce back" stretchable sensors that have been stretched a touch too far.


News Oct 15, 2020 by Luke James
New Electronic Fiber Sensors Said to “Smell” and “Hear”

New Electronic Fiber Sensors Said to “Smell” and “Hear”

The "invisible" 3D printed fiber sensors could be used to power electronic devices and sensors that are capable of sensing breath and sound.


News Oct 13, 2020 by Luke James
A New Dual RGB-IR Sensor Put to Use in Endoscopes for Cancer Detection

A New Dual RGB-IR Sensor Put to Use in Endoscopes for Cancer Detection

OmniVision claims this small form factor RGB-IR sensor may significantly advance medical imaging.


News Oct 01, 2020 by Nicholas St. John