Patients who remain in bed for long periods of time may develop pressure sores, which can in turn become potentially life-threatening chronic skin ulcers. A new sensor could help keep that from ...

The recent development in the utilization of flexible optical fiber sensors and the prospective application scenarios were then summarized, which encompass human activity monitoring and healthcare, ...

A new fiber-optic sensor made from stretchy rubber rather than glass can be integrated into wearable electronics and measure movement. The sensors can also quantify the force of stretching, bending, ...

Researchers have developed a new optical sensor that provides a simple way to achieve real-time detection of extremely low levels of arsenic in water. Researchers have developed a new optical sensor ...

A fiber pressure sensor boasts a measurement limit that cripples most optical sensors. A new type of optical pressure sensor that is able to operate in extreme conditions has been developed by ...

The prospect of exploiting spider silk's combination of optical and mechanical properties has been an attractive proposition to designers for some time. Back in 2008 a project at Tufts University ...

Scientists at Oxford University have developed a novel sensor made of incredibly thin strands of sapphire that can withstand extreme heat and radiation. The breakthrough is billed as a solution to a ...

From left: Cohen, Gopinath, Krueper in the lab. Their paper, “Realistic model of entanglement-enhanced sensing in optical fibers,” was published in Optics Express earlier this year. Research into ...

Electrochemical surface-plasmon-resonance sensing principle and experimental demonstration with a gold-coated TFBG optical fiber sensor. (a) Experimental setup of a plasmonic fiber-optic sensing ...