Detectors and Sensors

The truncated nonlinear interferometric readout for scanning probe microscopes that is disclosed here provides quantum noise reduction below the standard quantum limit and signal amplification for optically transduced microcantilever beam displacement measurements.

Neutron Collimators and other neutron absorbing devices are typically made from a single material due to limitations in manufacturing processes.

The approach to fabricate flexible, reconfigurable current sensors exploiting the emerging additive manufacturing techniques attempts to meet the performance, cost, and reliability demands for smart grid applications while integrating the signal processing and data

We invented a new type of nonlinear interferometer improving upon sensitivity of conventional nonlinear interferometers with fewer components reducing the cost and complexity.

This invention measures physical properties of carbon fiber tow. Equipment typically used for these types of measurements are often prohibitively expensive, bulky, and sensitive to industrial environments.

This technique for generating a structural health monitoring carbon fiber composite is a highly scalable method for integrating a wide variety of nanomaterials through a continuous feed-through fiber processing line.

The invention involves an array of cameras with different optical recipes to allow imaging of dynamic objects affected by low contrast, distance, and other translucent effects such as glare.

The invention overcomes the simple transmit/receive weakness when inspecting structures for defects.

The methods used here are expected to outperform conventional sensing material systems; since the intrinsic large surface-area-to-volume ratio of the structures provides enhanced adsorptive capacity and large reaction contact area between the sensing material and the targeted

By exploiting chemical phase-separation in oxide materials, we have demonstrated a novel approach to create three dimensional high-surface area nanostructured composite thin film coatings for enhanced gas sensing.