Advanced Science News
Sensors
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Pushing the Limits of Technology to Enhance Electronic Skins
Researchers create a soft robotic electronic skin with fingerprint-like patterns with future applications in prosthesis, wearable sensors, and medical devices.
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The Future of Cloaking Devices: Digital Coding Metasurfaces
Digital coding metasurfaces simultaneously manipulate both electromagnetic and acoustic waves for advanced cloaking or signaling devices.
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Electronics that Imitate Life: A Sensing Robotic Hand
Intrinsic or tightly integrated sensing, actuation, and computation embedded into 3D structures could enable a new generation of truly smart and complex...
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Whiskey-Phase Exfoliation: A Golden Future for Electronics?
A new study reports liquid-phase exfoliation of graphene, boron nitride, and tungsten disulphide nanosheets using Irish whiskey.
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Liquid Metals to Accurately Monitor Human Motion
Thin, soft, and stretchable gallium-based sensors to accurately monitor human hand kinematics.
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Invisible High-Resolution Fingerprint Sensors
A 0.2 mm thick sensor that can read fingerprints with incredible detail by detecting visible light reflected from the surface of the...
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The Success of Plasma for Microfabrication in Electronics
New plasma techniques are contributing to the rapid development of new micro-electromechanical systems.
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A Nano-Scale Graphene Accelerometer
Graphene forms the basis of the world’s smallest accelerometer a team of scientists in Sweden and Germany has recently developed
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Plasma Improves Printing of Fine Structures Using Nano Inks
Plasma printing pre-treatment contributes to increased print resolution with conductive nano inks on flexible polymer substrates.
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Expanding the Capabilities of IR Spectroscopy
An on-chip multi-wavelength IR sensor that can measure the thermal spectrum of matter.