Researchers have developed the first fully-integrated, non-dispersive infrared (NDIR) gas sensor enabled by specially engineered synthetic materials known as metamaterials. The sensor has no moving ...

(Nanowerk News) INTEC, imec's associated laboratory at Ghent University, and imec have coated SOI microring resonators with films of 3.5nm ZnO nanocrystals for optical sensing of gaseous ethanol.

Conventional electronic noses rely on arrays of chemical sensors whose electrical responses are often affected by humidity, temperature fluctuations, and long-term drift. While these systems have ...

Using microscopic polymer light resonators that expand in the presence of specific gases, researchers have developed new optical sensors with predicted detection levels in the parts-per-billion range.

Although we're constantly surrounded by it, the air around us often holds plenty of substances to which we're completely oblivious. And while information about the air around us can be critical for ...

Recently, a research team led by Professor Baicheng Yao from Key Laboratory of Optical Fiber Sensing and Communications, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, has developed a ...

At some time or another, we’ve all had an idea we thought was so clever that we jumped on the Internet to see if somebody else had already come up with it. Most of the time, they have. But on the off ...

(Nanowerk News) Researchers have developed the first fully-integrated, non-dispersive infrared (NDIR) gas sensor enabled by specially engineered synthetic materials known as metamaterials. The sensor ...