Another sensor that tends to be hidden away in plain sight is the ambient light sensor. Once again, you've seen it in action as it's used to adjust the brightness levels of your screen. But with the ...

In the pursuit of radio-tagged bats, Leonie Baier has gotten her truck stuck in the mud in the middle of the jungle with no ...

Accelerometers turn motion into measurable signals. From tilt and vibration to g-forces, they underpin countless designs. In this “Fun with Fundamentals” entry, we demystify their operation and take a ...

From ancient compasses to modern smartphones, magnetometers have quietly shaped how we sense and navigate the world. Let us explore the fundamentals behind these field-detecting devices. Magnetic ...

Have you ever wondered how your smartphone is able to detect your every move? Actually, this is all possible thanks to the dozens of tiny sensors hidden inside your phone. These sensors not only ...

The researchers fabricated chip-based interferometers (pictured) to measure how light propagating through a magneto-optic material changed in response to a magnetic field. WASHINGTON — Researchers ...

SBQuantum's measures local magnetic field vectors by applying laser and microwaves to a synthetic diamond in its compact magnetometer. Credit: SBQuantum SAN FRANCISCO – Canada’s SBQuantum has won an ...

A groundbreaking fiber-coupled diamond magnetometer has been possible by Element Six’s high purity CVD diamond and is set to advance structural material aging and medical diagnostics. A group of ...

For just over two years, a scalar magnetometer developed by Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) and the Space Research Institute (IWF) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences has been on its way to ...

Fraunhofer IAF presented the latest version of its compact integrated quantum magnetometer at World of Quantum in Munich. The diamond-based system is characterized by its robustness, high integration ...