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This Portable Air Quality Monitor Will Help Me Track Fourth of July Smoke
The Meter Pro from SwitchBot is so easy to use, and will keep me updated on firework smoke, air hazards and more.
What is the optimal setting for your air conditioner? We asked a physics professor
Ahh, summer, a time of vacations at the beach or mountains—and sky-high electricity bills as your air conditioner labors ...
TaIrTe₄ photodetectors show promise for highly sensitive room-temperature THz sensing
Terahertz radiation (THz), electromagnetic radiation with frequencies ranging between 0.1 and 10 THz, could be leveraged to ...
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Humidity Sensor With a PVA-Coated Photonic Crystal Fiber Interferometer - IEEE Xplore
A photonic crystal fiber (PCF)-model interferometer (MI)-based relative humidity (RH) sensor is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The PCF-MI is formed by fusion splicing a short length of PCF ...
Launch recap: Doubleheader SpaceX launch day in Florida starts with launch of ESA satellite
Live updates from the launch of the EUMETSAT MTG-S1 weather satellite for ESA. Liftoff occurred at 5:04 p.m. July 1 from ...
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Fiber Optic Sensor for Simultaneous Measurement of Refractive Index and Temperature Based on Internal-and- External-Cavity Fabry–Pérot Interferometer Configuration - IEEE Xplore
An internal-and-external-cavity Fabry-Pérot interferometer (IECFPI) model was mathematically constructed. Based on the IECFPI configuration, a crosstalk-free fiber optic sensor for simultaneous ...