Sensor Review: Volume 24 Issue 3

Nanotechnology: what are the prospects for sensors?

This paper aims to assess the impact of nanotechnology on sensors. Examples of recent nanosensor developments are given and future prospects are briefly considered.

Switches and pressure sensors benefit from novel composite material

A new material has been developed consisting of metal particles intimately distributed in a polymer. This composite becomes a conductor under compression, tension or twisting…

A visual programming environment for machine vision engineers

This paper details a free image analysis and software development environment for machine vision application development. The environment provides high‐level access to over 300…

Flexural strain sensing using carbon nanotube film

Strain sensing characteristic of carbon nanotubes has been established in the past at nanoscale. In this study, it is shown that the carbon nanotube film sensors, made up of…

A novel PVDF microforce/force rate sensor for practical applications in micromanipulation

This paper presents our development of a novel force and force rate sensory system to advance applications in micromanipulation using an in situ polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF…

A supported membrane type sensor for medical tactile mapping

This paper describes the design, fabrication, testing, and mathematical modeling of a supported membrane type polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) tactile sensor. Using the designed…

A stereo imaging system for the metric 3D recovery of porcine surface anatomy

We have succeeded in capturing porcine 3D surface anatomy in vivo by developing a high‐resolution stereo imaging system. The system achieved accurate 3D shape recovery by matching…

Springer Handbook of Nanotechnology

MEMS Mechanical Sensors

Semiconductor Nanostructures for Optoelectronic Applications

Horiba's new infrared thermometer, a low cost alternative to thermal imaging

Diary

Truly portable TR data-loggers

Biometrics gets the vote

Microbolometer

Olympus Europe acquires Soft Imaging System

Nanotechnology

Brave new world

International Biometric Group announces new release of State of Iris Recognition Technology Report

Call for papers

New high speed volume measurement from Sick

Simple gas sampling

New thermal NDT technique aimed at replacing visual inspection methods

LABCam gets you the images you were afraid to ask for

Space saving submersible float switch for industrial tanks

New Web break detection sensor

Nanostructured Micromachined Devices

Single-walled carbon nanotubes enable strain sensing

Multi-functional MEMs Devices

Detecting stress corrosion cracking at temperature

Nanotechnology and sub-miniaturised sensors

Secondee seeks “Smart Dust” Technology

Internet page

Cognex machine vision achieves zero error rate

TEDS – transducer electronic data sheets

Sony digital IEEE 1394 camera family extended to include raw colour models for high speed industrialapplications

Fine spot, teachable laser sensor ideal for small part detection