At the heart of every camera is a sensor, whether that sensor is a collection of light-detecting pixels or a strip of ...

Researchers in Sweden have unveiled a way to create high-performance electronic electrodes using nothing more than visible light and specially designed water-soluble monomers. This gentle, ...

Researchers have developed a precision magnetometer based on a special material that changes optical properties in response ...

A multilayered semiconductor acting as an optical sensor opens the way to miniaturized, adjunct spectrometers.

Singular Photonics and Renishaw co-develop next-gen spectroscopy capabilities powered by Singular’s new suite of SPAD image ...

Formula 1® season is coming to an end, and that the final race should be bangin’. To get ready, he built this ultra-sleek ...

Plant responses to light are multiple. Light is an energy source, converted to sugars by photosynthesis. It is also a signal sensed by specific photoreceptors for red, blue and UV-B radiation. Absence ...

Chris Wedel is a fan of all things tech and gadgets. Living in rural Kansas with his wife and two young boys makes finding ways to stay online tricky — not to mention making my homestead smarter.

Optical sensors are a broad class of device for detecting light intensity. This can be just a simple component for notifying when ambient light levels rise above or fall below a prescribed level, or a ...

Rearview radars for cyclists can help you keep alert to vehicles approaching from behind. For a long time, the Garmin Varia rearview radars were the only option, but now there are numerous radar tail ...

Abstract: Accurate indoor positioning is becoming increasingly important, especially in highly automated industrial environments with robots. In addition, LED-based lighting is also being used more ...