An only slightly less simple followup circuit also ratios sensor capacitance to a reference capacitor to measure micrometers…this time linearly. Figure 1 The U1a and U1b cross-coupled Schmidt trigger ...

Inductive sensors are non-contact proximity sensors that detect ferrous targets, ideally ones made of mild steel thicker than one millimeter. They consist of four major components: a ferrite core with ...

Single-use biomanufacturing has shifted the default expectation for process monitoring: instead of pulling manual samples and waiting for offline analysis, modern disposable bioreactors arrive with ...

Standardization might sound boring, but it’s really a great underlying strength of modern society. Everyone agreeing on a way that a certain task should be done saves a lot of time, energy, and money.

The scientific community cannot always agree on how much water a person needs in a day, and since we are not Fremen, we should give it more thought than we do. For many people, remembering to take a ...

Conventional vision hardware separates photodetection from computation, incurring substantial latency and energy costs. Chen and Di et al. report an optoelectronic architecture based on a ...

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