Robotics, sensors, & devices publications

We have demonstrated energy harvesting transducers that have operated over 5 million cycles and have shown the ability of thematerial to survive for months underwater while undergoing voltage cycling.

The papers in this section present relevant new models, devices and applications of three families of iconic EAPs (conducting polymers, carbon nanotubes, and ionic polymer-metal composites) and one family of…

The design and operation of a new generation of digital imaging riometer systems developed by Lancaster University are presented.

We have verified that the dielectric elastomer type of electroactive polymer can maintain good operational characteristics even in an ultrahigh-pressure environment by showing that the electroactive strain response to an…

This paper describes the operational principles, design and field testing of a new, compact, Faraday filter-based spectrometer to measure the D2 (589.158 nm) to D1 (589.756 nm) intensity ratio of…

A case study of mesospheric winds and waves observed by the Poker Flat Incoherent Scatter Radar (PFISR) on 23 April 2008 is presented.

Linearly polarized light emission is analyzed in nonpolar light-emitting diodes (LEDs) covering the blue to green spectral range.

We have implemented an efficient and fast quaternary InGaAsP pin photodiode, epitaxially grown on the surface of an InP scintillator wafer and sensitive to InP luminescence.

We develop a technique for using monostatic, electronically steerable incoherent scatter radar (ISR) to generate 2-D estimates of F region flow fields.

In this paper, we present several methods for reducing power consumption while retaining the precision necessary for cardiac monitoring.