News tagged with laser displacement sensors

Nano Measurement in the 3rd Dimension

From the motion sensor to the computer chip - in many products of daily life components are used whose functioning is based on smallest structures of the size of thousandths - or even millionths - of millimetres. ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 06, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0




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Retroreflector transmits light with negligible power consumption

(Phys.org) -- In free-space optical communications (FSO), data is wirelessly transmitted by light propagating through open space. Among their applications, FSO systems are used for communications between spacecraft ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 17, 2012 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (6) | comments 2 | with audio podcast feature

'Orca ears' inspire researchers to develop ultrasensitive undersea microphone

(PhysOrg.com) -- Stanford researchers have developed a microphone that can be used at any depth in the ocean, even under crushing pressure, and is sensitive to a wide range of sounds, from a whisper in a library ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

ORNL rifle sighting system uses sensors to score bull's-eye

Military and police marksmen could see their rifle sights catch up with the 21st century with a fiber-optic laser-based sensor system that automatically corrects for even tiny barrel disruptions.

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 18, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 7

New views at the nanoscale

(PhysOrg.com) -- Magnetic resonance imaging, first developed in the early 1970s, has become a standard diagnostic tool for cancer, cardiovascular disease and neurological disorders, among others. MRI is ideally ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 27, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Scientists record yoctonewton forces

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists in Australia and the US have discovered that trapped ions are "exquisitely sensitive" force detectors, and have used them to record the tiniest forces ever measured.

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 14, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (11) | comments 1 | with audio podcast weblog

One nano-step closer to weighing a single atom

By studying gold nanoparticles with highly uniform sizes and shapes, scientists now understand how they lose energy, a key step towards producing nanoscale detectors for weighing any single atom.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Catching the lightwave: Nano-mechanical sensors 'wired' by photonics

As researchers push towards detection of single molecules, single electron spins and the smallest amounts of mass and movement, Yale researchers have demonstrated silicon-based nanocantilevers, smaller than ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 26, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 3

Researchers develop world's fastest bar code reader

(PhysOrg.com) -- Building on a series of recent breakthroughs in ultrafast analog-to-digital conversion, UCLA engineers have designed a bar code reader that is nearly a thousand times faster than any device currently in use.

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 30, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (19) | comments 4

New field-deployable biosensor detects avian influenza virus in minutes instead of days

Quick identification of avian influenza infection in poultry is critical to controlling outbreaks, but current detection methods can require several days to produce results.

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created Sep 27, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

New Technology to Use Human Body As Digital Transmission Path

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) is pursuing research and development of an innovative Human Area Networking technology called RedTacton (*1) that safely turns the surface of the human body ...

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created Feb 22, 2005 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (45) | comments 0


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