IC packaging advances yield smaller, high-rel sensors
The worldwide sensor market is growing by leaps and bounds. Indicative of that trend, analysts following large mainstream industries . .
Tag: Sensors And Transducers
Combining multimodal touch and haptic response
Since their introduction in 2007, mobile handsets with capacitive touchscreens have significantly changed the way users interact with mobile . .
Pot vs. sensor
The difference between a potentiometer and a position sensor has narrowed over the years and as a result, caused . .
Choosing a proximity sensor
Proximity sensors, which are designed to detect the presence of nearby objects without any physical contact, have evolved from . .
Fiber optics breaks rules of conventional sensing
Conventional sensors convert physical phenomena (such as temperature, load, pressure, and strain) into electricity, which is then conditioned, sampled, . .
Sensing pressure to boost heat-sink performance
Modern microprocessor-controlled electronics and high-power LED-based lighting operate at elevated temperatures due to Joule heating. As a result, the . .
A (small) breakthrough in intracellular measurement
A team of chemists and engineers at Harvard University has created a V-shaped transistor that is small enough to . .
Sensors at the crossroads
We have arrived at one of those major crossroads in history, a point where, when we look back on . .
I/O modules, modems ease wireless sensor network setup
Additions to the Zlinx Xtreme industrial wireless line, the IP67-rated ZXT9-IO-222R2 and ZXT24-IO-222R2 I/O modules and the ZXT9-RM and . .
Synaptics Touch Pad Technology Extends into the Digital Living Room
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – July 28, 2010 – Synaptics Inc. (NASDAQ: SYNA), a leading developer of human interface solutions . .