Hybrid device: A diagram of the layers in the new soft pressure sensor. (Courtesy: University of Texas at Austin) Wearable pressure sensors are commonly used in medicine to track vital signs, and in ...

August 2, 2007 Alps Electric has completed development of the industry’s smallest (4.8mm long x 4.8mm wide x 1.8 mm high) capacitance type pressure sensor to detect absolute pressure. The sensor can ...

During its Technology Forum in Tokyo this week, Freescale Semiconductor introduced a tire pressure monitoring system based on a capacitive pressure sensor, formally introduced the application ...

In the past, capacitive sensors for automotive electronics were rarely used, as they were deemed to be hard to control, difficult to read out, sensitive to aging, and temperature dependent. On the ...

According to latest report “Pressure Sensors Market by Product Type (Absolute Pressure Sensor, Gauge Pressure Sensor, Differential Pressure Sensor), Technology (Piezoresistive, Capacitive, Resonant ...

Capacitive sensors are found in a wide range of equipment, from consumer electronics to industrial/process control. Touch buttons are increasingly found in lamps and dimmers. Motion detectors can ...