Sensors

Teledyne Space Imaging has had its second CCD launch within a week, this time in part of the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-4 space-based air-quality monitoring mission. In the other one, a pair of Teledyne CIS120 sensors launched on GOSAT-GW, Japan’s global observing satellite for greenhouse gases and water cycle satellite Sentinel-4 will be spread across multiple satellites, with this Sentinel-4 ...

CIS120 sensors designed and manufactured by Teledyne Space Imaging have launched on the Japanese space mission GOSAT-GW (Global Observing SATellite for Greenhouse gases and Water cycle). The Chelmsford-based company highlights the two sensors will play a significant part in what is the third of a series of Japanese climate change and Earth observation satellite missions. TANSO-3 They are part of ...

EBE Sensors + Motion has introduced a touch sensor evaluation board for challenging environments. It implements a technology branded ‘TCRC’, which is aimed at operating panels in industry, construction machinery, medical environments and kitchens, for example. “Whether in freezing cold, tropical heat, wet, or dusty environments, TCRC sensors work reliably,” claimed EBE. “They can be operated with gloves or dirty ...

TDK is challenging quartz accelerometers in down-hole measure-while-drilling applications with a ±14g MEMS accelerometer that works across -30 to +150°C. With a “unique closed-loop architecture that provides an unprecedented level of vibration rectification and resistance to operational shocks, AXO315T0 exhibits a bias residual error of 0.8mg over its operating temperature range, enabling a precise and continuous inclination measurement for directional ...

Bosch has included ±28g accelerometers in its latest 3D inertial measurement unit, aimed at sports wearables. Called BHI385, it also includes a 32bit processor running embedded AI software “creating a complete programmable system”, claimed the company. It “accurately captures dynamic movements such as smashes, swings, and jumps [enabling] motion analysis for high-impact events across sports, fitness and gaming”. Features include ...

Murata has introduced an industrial-grade 3-axis accelerometer for structural health monitoring, machine control and construction. Includes temperature and drift over lifetime. Excluding mechanical shocks The company claims an offset error over life and temperature of ±4mg for x and y axes, and ±6mg for z, for the unit, dubbed SCA3400-D01. (‘g’ in this article is gravity rather than grams). Offset ...

A strategic partnership has been announced between image sensor technology specialist, Singular Photonics, and optical technology distributor AMS Technologies. The partnership means Singular’s image sensors based on single photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) will be available to European customers. AMS will be the primary distribution and support partner for European OEMs, research labs, and system integrators. Singular provides on-chip computation to ...

Same Sky has created an absolute encoder family for motor shafts from 9 to 15.875mm (5/8inch). Called AMT25 and said to be accurate to ±0.2°, the family relies on the same in-house capacitive ASIC for sensing as all of its AMT series encoders, which is claimed to resist environmental particulates. Outputs options are 12 or 14bit, both over a bi-directional ...

Sony Semiconductor has created a nerve cell sensing array with over 200,000 electrodes spread over a few square millimetres. Aimed at drug research, it allows experiments on nerve cells outside of a human or animal. Made in CMOS, it has 236 880 electrodes in a ~480 x 500 array across 5.5 x 5.9mm. The pixel spacing – 11.22μm square pixels ...

Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed smart textiles that use acoustic waves instead of electronics to measure touch, pressure and movement. SonoTextiles work with glass microfibres that conduct sound waves; data processing is efficient thanks to use of different frequencies. The researchers have woven glass fibres into the fabric at regular intervals. At one end of each glass fibre is ...