"This way we can build electrodes out of it, "he said.""It should be easy to integrate into devices."
and quantum microchips has been made by team of scientists from Penn State university and the University of Chicago.
as they do in computer chips. As a semimetal, graphene naturally has no bandgaps, making it a challenge for widespread industry adoption.
"For use in electronic devices, the semiconductor industry is interested primarily in three faces of a germanium crystal.
night-vision goggles and smoke detectors to surveillance systems and satellites--that rely on electronic light sensors. Integrated into a digital camera lens, for example, it could reduce bulkiness and boost both the acquisition speed and quality of video or still photos.
The researchers also placed electrodes under the phototransistor's ultrathin silicon nanomembrane layer--and the metal layer and electrodes each act as reflectors
and improve light absorption without the need for an external amplifier.""There's a built-in capability to sense weak light,
Future applications of such a DNA walker might include a cancer detector that could roam the human body searching for cancerous cells
scientists discovered that the main reason lithium ion batteries lose their capacity over many charge-discharge cycles has to do with expansion and contraction of the graphite electrodes at either end.
they stick to the electrode there, and can snap off as the whole thing expands and contracts. This removes some lithium ions from the system,
However, the front-facing camera will also be getting an upgraded sensor and a flashbulb of its very own.
Wee bound to see an Apple A9 system-on-a-chip with a faster CPU and GPU.
Apple has been continually adding more sensors to their devices, so having a newer chip dedicated to handling the increasing amount of data makes sense.
While an Apple patent for wireless earbuds with bone conduction popped up recently on the USPTO website
After all, you can already buy $200 Beats wireless headphones from the Apple Store. ipad rumors are flying fast,
Now, they have a prototype for a new and improved type of rover antenna one that could turn those minutes into hours,
The idea comes from a group working on advanced antenna technology at UCLA, in combination with NASA Jet propulsion laboratory.
The idea is basically to use an array of 256 antenna elements (a 16 x 16 square) all working together to make a uper-antennacapable of directly communicating with Earth.
The reason it works is not just that the array of mini-antennas creates a more powerful signal
and Mars. The additive characteristics of its compound antenna actually work in both directions; not only will it be able to create more powerful signals to transmit back to Earth,
and so the antenna is planned to be mounted on a gimbal arm that can lift the antenna and orient it in any direction.
This unrestrained antenna mount combined with the circular polarization of the signal itself, should also allow the rover to transmit
it likely that the electrodes are stimulating the sections of motor cortex already associated with finger sensation.
And you don have to be an amputee to get electrodes put on your brain, which opens up the area of extra mechanical limbs.
You can still listen in on either the sender or receiver directly, or perhaps even find a way to surveil these quantum dots themselves,
The device created here is a modification of a common type of antenna designed to operate at THZ wavelengths.
Termed a eaky wave antenna the device is made from two parallel metal plates, forming a waveguide.
One of the principle barriers to increasing CPU clocks is that it extremely difficult to move heat out of the chip.
and CPUS aren very good at spreading that heat out across the entire surface area of the chip.
and 80 billion sensors activated by 2020, organizations must build for Big data business models and insight economies.
Massachusetts institute of technology spin out Cambridge Electronics Inc (CEI) has announced a line of Gan transistors and power electronic circuits that promise to cut energy usage in data centres, electric cars,
and the inverters that convert the battery power to drive the electric motors. The silicon transistors used today have constrained a power capability that limits how much power the car can handle.
#Smart sensor developed by Duke university, lets your smartphone hear in noisy parties People trying to talk to Apple electronic personal assistant Siri in a crowded place may soon no longer have to look like they are about to eat their iphones,
The sensor developed by Duke engineers can determine the direction of a sound and extract it from the surrounding background noise.
After being picked up by a microphone on the other side, the sound is transmitted to a computer that is able to separate the jumble of noises based on these unique distortions.
The researchers tested their invention in multiple trials by simultaneously sending three identical sounds at the sensor from three different directions.
and Micro-HDMI. Running blackberry 10, it is packed by a 2100 mah battery. Commenting on the launch, Hitesh Shah, Director of Sales and Distribution, at Blackberry India stated, ith the launch of the new P983 Graphite from Blackberry,
Toshiba has teamed up with Gujarat-based Einfochips to provide chips for Google Project Ara. The camera modules will be made available in both 5mp and 13mp versions,
it uses bone conduction headphones that rest on the blind person cheeks, giving him turn-by-turn directions on where to go
At the same time, the headphones do not prevent wearers from hearing the sounds around them, allowing them to gather more information about the surrounding environment.
These techs include things like 3d printing, artificial intelligence, synthetic biology, infinite computing, networks, sensors, nanotechnology, and virtual realitynd is essentially a list of the most disruptive technologies ever invented.
An aluminum-ion battery generally consists of two electrodes, one negatively charged anode made of aluminum and a positively charged cathode.
The aluminum battery is also flexible so it can be used in electronic devices that can fold and bend.
and showed it to reporters and industry representatives with great fanfare at the 1993 winter Consumer electronics Show.
That project takes 173,000 mirrors and focuses the sunlight to the plant solar receiver steam generator,
Sensors will soon provide doctors valuable feedback for a range of chronic conditions: a pacemakers use in heart arrhythmias, efficacy (or side effects) of prescribed medications,
cloud, analytics as well as sensors and imaging, Nokia said in a press release Wednesday. lcatel-Lucent and Nokia have highly complementary portfolios and geographies, with particular strength in the United states, China, Europe and Asia-Pacific.
a desk, two bedside tables and floor, table and work lamps with embedded transmitters. The collection will arrive in U s. stores later this spring.
IKEA transmitters will work with the Samsung galaxy S6, and are compatible with any phone that includes Qi wireless charging technology.
hospitals and chip makers, to name two, and even the U s. Department of defense. Central to the concept of onsite generation that links with microgrids is energy storage,
and holding the microphone icon above the keyboard. The new voice calling feature will let you make phone calls to your contacts,
the system would include a sensor to detect the explosion or other shockwave-producing event
The system may include a sensor for detecting a source of the shockwave and generating a detection signal,
an arc generator in communication with the sensor and configured to receive the detection signal therefrom,
the sensor has to detect that a shockwave is on its way and then turn on in time to help save its protected asset.
which integrates a LED light unit alongside sensor, communication and control technology. The company is pushing an Internet of things (Iot) slant on LED LIGHTS.
LEDSENSE units include sensors that can determine building temperature sense motion from a person in the vicinity as well as sensing odors and potentially toxic chemicals in the air.
Advanced sensors provide safety and security information and alerts all through the LED LIGHTS. LEDSENSE is primarily an energy efficiency tool LEDSENSE can,
and be granted a money transmitter license in every state. Facebook has been approved money transmitter licenses in every US state and territory along with many European and Asian countries.
My good friend Faisal Khan has been researching this for a number of years. In the US
Motion and sound detection sensors also monitor a user vehicle for unsafe or suspicious activity,
while an integrated microphone enables clear audio recording and sound detection. The subscription is optional however it does enable full functionality/user experience of the product.
According to The LA Times, the fan was too busy filming to sing along into the microphone Beyoncé was holding before his face.
but also carry electronics, sensors and batteries.""This would be an extremely difficult task, since the weight of the body has to be really lightweight for it to jump on water,
and many toothpastes and sunscreensnto the electrodes could prevent them from corroding while still allowing light
techniques on a gram-scale object to reduce quantum noise in detectors, thus increasing the sensitivity to pick up on those gravity waves,
#How to build millions of tiny microscopes all at once A new optical device made of silicon anopillarscould lead to advanced microscopes, displays, sensors,
and cameras that can be mass-produced using the same techniques used to manufacture computer microchips. urrently,
an assistant professor of applied physics and materials science at Caltech. ut this new technology is very similar to the one used to print semiconductor chips onto silicon wafers,
Ghodbane and six Rutgers researchers recently described the new technology in a paper published in Lab on a Chip. he results are as sensitive and accurate as the standard benchtop assay,
The team has combined several capabilities for the first time in the device theye dubbed LISA-on-a-chip (for enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay.
To understand just how the new acoustic edge detector works it is important to know that sound waves are reflected off edges in a remarkable way:
At the head of the structure, four microphones measure the transmitted sound. To create an outline image,
They attached the polymer structure with the microphones to a robot very close to the object surface,
This phase, characterized by an unusual ordering of electrons, offers possibilities for new electronic device functionalities and could hold the solution to a longstanding mystery in condensed matter physics having to do with high-temperature superconductivityhe ability
for example for building sensors that are required to operate in extreme conditions. Source: ETH Zuric o
#Depth sensor could bring Kinect games outdoors A new imaging technology could address a major drawback of depth-sensing cameras, such as Microsoft Kinect controller:
This is all done by the sensor. ne prototype based on this model synchronizes a laser projector with a common rolling-shutter camerahe type of camera used in most smartphoneso that the camera detects light only from points being illuminated by the laser as it scans across the scene.
noting that a robot sensors expend a relatively large amount of energy because they are always on. very watt matters in a space mission. arasimhan says depth cameras that can operate outdoors could be useful in automotive applications,
Like the Tour lab previous discovery of silicon oxide memories, the new devices require only two electrodes per circuit,
the resulting areas under the receiver-operating characteristic curves (AUC) of the panel were 0. 89 in the training (70%of the data)
#Protein Based Sensors Expand Synthetic biology Repertoire Engineering proteins to detect specific DNA, RNA, or peptide sequences may not be a new idea,
The findings from this study were published recently in the Journal of the American Chemical Society through an article entitled highly selective electrochemical DNA-based sensor that employs steric hindrance effects to detect proteins directly in whole blood.
(or traffic) at the surface of a sensor, which drastically reduced the signal of our tests,
and limits the ability of this DNA to hybridize to its complementary strand located on the surface of a gold electrode.
The resulting current created by the signaling mechanism is sufficient enough to be picked up by simple electronic devices,
#New chip could turn phone cameras into high-res 3d scanners As if smartphones can't already do enough,
#Inkjet printers could produce paper sensors that identify dangerous food and water contaminants Sensors that identify infectious disease
and food contaminants may soon be printed on paper using ordinary office inkjet printers. Researchers at Mcmaster University have developed a prototype that could lead to a commercial product in the next few years which helps doctors
The new sensors are also much simpler to produce.""Our original E coli sensor required a very sophisticated ink jet-printer printer
and very specialized inks in order to be produced, "Brennan told Gizmag.""We have found that these specialized requirements have made scale up
inexpensive electrodes, good safety, high-speed charging, flexibility and long cycle life. I see this as a new battery in its early days.
#Overview of a Smart Optical Time-of-Flight Sensor Technology With billions of sensors already being deployed in all types of devices and applications,
the sensor revolution is well underway. Through the Internet of things (Iot) and the Internet of Everything (Ioe), smart sensors have the potential to significantly help our societies resolve countless global challenges.
In order to do so in a timely manner, major advancements are required in the development of ultra-efficient sensors.
Figure 1. Signal travelling through the main components of a Leddar sensing modulefigure 2. Emission beam pattern and match to a 16-element photodetectorfigure 3. Sample trace
View all Sensors are linked very closely to the Iot, as its core function is to collect valuable data.
Fundamentally, what makes a smart sensor"smart"is its onboard signal/data-processing capabilities. Through the Iot, large amounts of quality, sensor-based data can be collected at any time and from anywhere,
and it can then be transmitted over a network in real time. This provides enhanced awareness of our immediate or remote environment, bringing forth opportunities for faster and better decision-making,
The new generation of ultra-efficient smart sensors requires key characteristics such as small size low cost, low power consumption, low bandwidth consumption,
The main innovation behind this new approach lies in the superior signal processing that drives every Leddar sensor.
the Leddar sensor's LEDS and emitter optics are used to create a diffuse beam covering a wider area of interest.
The receiver collects the backscatter of the reflected light from objects in the beam and, using full-waveform analysis,
measuring the distance of the detected objects (based on the time taken by the light to return to the sensor).
and a wide range of optics options are available for the sensor modules, providing a variety of beam patterns for different needs.
or multiple sensors. This unique sensing technology presents multiple advantages. The use of a diffuse light beam increases the detection robustness of specular surfaces.
Aligning the sensor is also easier, which results in fast and simple installation. Additionally, the multi-element receiver provides detection
and ranging for multiple segments of the beam without the need to scan (no moving parts).
Time-of-Flight Principle Leddar sensors use LEDS to generate very short light pulses, typically 100,000 pulses per second.
The time-of-flight (Tof) principle essentially consists in measuring the time taken by a light pulse to travel from the sensor to a remote object
and to return to the sensor. The range R of the detected object is deduced from the measured full round-trip time T of the light pulse using the simple relation R c T/2 n
This causes different irradiances of the echo pulse at the receiver, which are measured by the Leddar sensor.
This measured irradiance depends on the distance measured by the Tof principle and the angle of incidence that can be determined by imaging-collecting optics that focus the reflected beam on the sensor photodetectors.
A 16-element photodetector is used typically in Leddar sensors (shown in Figure 1). Figure 1. Signal travelling through the main components of a Leddar sensing module Figure 1 Signal travelling through the main components
of a Leddar sensing module Beam Pattern for Multi-Element Option The multiple-element photodetector has a rectangular sensing area.
The purpose of the emission optics of a Leddar sensor is to direct as much of the emitted light from one
Figure 2 illustrates a simulated emission beam pattern of a Leddar sensor with an overlay of the matching segments provided by the reception optics corresponding to the photodetector elements.
The sensor signal is amplified, and the signal acquisition is synchronized to the pulses. An oversampling scheme using multiple light pulses is implemented to improve the resolution of the acquired signal.
The performance of the sensor can thus be optimized with these parameters to meet the requirements of the application.
Detection and Distance Measurement The detection and distance measurement is performed by the sensor's processor,
The signals consist of a series of values representing light amplitude at incremental distances from the sensor.
The amplitude depends on distance, size, reflectivity and angle of the object with respect to the sensor. An object will be detected by the sensor
if a light pulse above a predetermined threshold is found. The threshold at which a peak in the trace is interpreted as the presence of an object depends on the signal-to-noise ratio.
Leddartech determines the default threshold level for each sensor based on the signal-to-noise ratio. A threshold table is applied in the detection processing of the traces,
and a threshold offset parameter is provided on most sensors in order to adjust this threshold table. The offset can be set to increase
or decrease the sensitivity of the sensor. This can be used to ignore the presence of objects returning weak signals
Another setting available on Leddar sensors IS LED the intensity. LED intensity control can be set to manual mode or automatic mode.
In automatic control mode, the sensor will dynamically adjust the LED intensity based on the amplitude of the signal for objects detected in the sensor beam.
With this control, a sensor model can be used for a wide range of applications with different range requirements
and also be used in applications where objects can both be very close or far from the sensor.
In this example, the sensor is collecting light reflected back by two separate objects. Full waveform analysis performed by Leddar sensors provides the capacity to detect multiple objects in the same segment.
This is possible if the closer object is smaller than the illuminated area for that segment.
the multi-element sensor software generates a combined graphical representation of all segments, as shown in Figure 4 below.
this beam contains 16 of the pulses illustrated in Figure 3 Benefits of Leddar Technology Leddar sensors provide three key benefits compared to competing products:
Integrating with Leddar Sensor Modules At the heart of all Leddar sensors lies the Leddarcore with patented Leddar Light Processing,
providing an ultra-low-power sensor core that can easily fit into a small footprint. Because of their compact size and flexible interfaces
Namely, the included software development kit provides sample code for developers to quickly integrate sensor data into their application software.
As for the receiver, one can choose from several beam options, ranging from 3°to 95°.
Conclusion This innovative core technology is giving rise to the creation of a completely new generation of ultra-efficient smart sensors,
Leddar is poised to become a key enabler in the smart sensor revolution. For more information on this patented*technology, visit leddartech. com. Leddar is registered a trademark of Leddartech Inc. Leddar technology is covered by one or more of the following U s. patents:
#Graphene device makes ultrafast light to energy conversion possible Converting light to electricity is one of the pillars of modern electronics, with the process essential for the operation of everything from solar cells and TV remote control receivers through to laser communications
along with an ultra-sensitive pulse detector to capture the speed of conversion to electrical energy. When this arrangement was fired up and tested
#Canon's new four million ISO video camera leaves nothing in the dark Ever been poking around in low-light with your camera
000,000 ISO HD video camera that seems sure to bring the noise. The seeds were sewn for Canon's new shooter in 2013,
when the company announced the development of a new 35 mm full-frame CMOS sensor specifically for filming in poorly lit environments.
This sensor has now found its way into a cubed-shaped 4 x 4. 5 x 4. 4 in (10.2 x 11.4 x 11.2 cm) body that weighs approximately 2. 4 lb
The sensor's pixels measure 19 microns, which is more than five times larger than those generally found in high-end DSLRS and amounts to a modest 2. 26 megapixels.
or 60 fps and features 3g/HD-SDI and HDMI outputs for hooking up to peripherals like recorders and monitors.
Flanked by connecting electrodes (an anode on one side and a cathode on the other),
"Using a single symmetric molecule, an ionic solution and two gold electrodes of dramatically different exposed surface areas,
"The asymmetry necessary for diode behavior originates with the different exposed electrode areas and the ionic solution.
This leads to different electrostatic environments surrounding the two electrodes and superlative single-molecule device behavior."
particularly as diodes form the basis of many microminiature electronic devices. Since then, a range of devices have been constructed,
"said professor"The efficiency of the tunneling process depends intimately on the degree of alignment of the molecule discrete energy levels with the electrode continuous spectrum.
and Luis Campos from Columbia University to create their high-performance rectifier diode using junctions prepared from symmetric molecules attached to gold electrodes.
the researchers then altered the surface area of the electrodes as they were exposed to an ionic solution.
"The ionic solution, combined with the asymmetry in electrode areas, allows us to control the junction electrostatic environment simply by changing the bias polarity,
"In addition to breaking symmetry, double layers formed by ionic solution also generate dipole differences at the two electrodes,
The Columbia group experiments showed that with the same molecule and electrode setup, a nonionic solution yields no rectification at all."
a full-sized HDMI port, a pair of USB ports and an SD card slot included. The systems will ship with a choice of just 16,32 or 64 GB internal storage,
These include sensors that aren't as accurate in determining the location and status of themselves and things around them as they could be,
That because VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed a miniature phone-compatible sensor, that uses light to identify the type and amount of gases in air samples.
The sensor is scaled a-down version of a Fabry-Pérot interferometer. As such, it works by shining light of various wavelengths through an air sample.
San diego are also all working on smartphone gas sensors s
#Aluminum"yolk"nanoparticles deliver high-capacity battery recipe Researchers at MIT and Tsinghua University in China have found a way to more than triple the capacity of the anodes,
or negative electrodes, of lithium-ion batteries while also extending their lifetime and potentially allowing for faster battery charging
The new electrode, which makes use of aluminum/titanium"yolk -and-shell"nanoparticles, is reportedly simple to manufacture
The lithium-ion batteries in our phones, tablets and laptops store their energy-carrying ions inside negative electrodes made of graphite.
Other electrode materials could in theory do a far better job by packing in more energy
and contract very noticeably as the greatly increased number of lithium ions travel to and from the electrode with each charge cycle.
damages the electrode contacts and reduces the cell's capacity. The team led by MIT professor Ju Li claim to have found a way around this problem.
storing and releasing ions without damaging the structure of the electrode and leading to much longer-lasting, high-capacity batteries.
because the repeated expansion and shrinkage inside the electrode cause aluminium particles to shed their outer layer.
the new electrode can reportedly store over three times as much energy per unit mass (1. 2 Ah/g) at a normal charging rate.
which they fabricated using lithium iron phosphate for the positive electrode. Once this technology is ready for real world applications,
Towards this end, researchers from the University of Bristol and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) claim to have developed a fully-reprogrammable quantum optical chip able to encode
Even better, the stable and quickly reprogrammable nature of the chip's architecture changeable by means of software code means that a vast range of existing
it took seconds to reprogram the chip, and milliseconds for the chip to switch to the new experiment,"said University of Bristol Phd student
and research team member, Jacques Carolan.""We carried out a year worth of experiments in a matter of hours.
What wee really excited about is using these chips to discover new science that we haven even thought of yet...
This chip has been fabricated and packaged up, so that we never need to realign it. It sits there,
with plans to add even more chips in the near future.""Over the last decade, we have established an ecosystem for photonic quantum technologies,
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