Electronics & Semiconductors

New wearable sensor sets record for solar power efficiency

Sweat, like blood, can tell us a lot about a person's health. And conveniently, it's a lot less invasive to collect. This is the premise behind the wearable sweat sensors developed by Wei Gao, assistant professor of medical ...

Security

A surprisingly simple way to foil car thieves

Skyrocketing vehicle theft rates in some U.S. cities have drawn attention to an inconvenient truth: the increasing amount of technology in our vehicles can make them increasingly vulnerable to hacking or theft.

Electronics & Semiconductors

Miniscule device could help preserve the battery life of tiny sensors

Scientists are striving to develop ever-smaller Internet of Things devices, like sensors tinier than a fingertip that could make nearly any object trackable. These diminutive sensors have miniscule batteries which are often ...

Electronics & Semiconductors

First electromechanical resonator to operate beyond 100 GHz

In what has the potential to significantly advance wireless communications and mechanical quantum systems, researchers at Yale have demonstrated the world's first electromechanical resonator to operate beyond 100 GHz.

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